Alex Chediak - Preparing Your Teens for College: Faith, Friends, Finances, and Much More

Preparing Your Teens for College is... an outstanding book about preparing [teens] for adulthood whether or not they go to college. Every parent who wants his or her teen to make a successful transition to young adulthood will profit from this book. As a grandparent Im going to send copies to my own children to help them prepare our grandchildren.

JERRY BRIDGES

Author of The Pursuit of Holiness

Dont let the college years derail your teens. Too many are floundering in college, losing their connection to God and reality. Let Alex be your guide to preparing them for college.

JOSH MCDOWELL

Speaker and author of More Than a Carpenter

My only sadness in reading this book is that it was not available when my wife and I were parting with our children. Alex Chediak has provided a comprehensive manual, packed with biblical insight and practical wisdom. It should be required reading for all parents in preparation for the bittersweet sorrow of seeing our children in the rearview mirror as we drive away from the college campus.

ALISTAIR BEGG

Senior minister, Parkside Church, Chagrin Falls, Ohio

Parents have no guarantees, but they can boost the likelihood of a successful transition to college by absorbing Alex Chediaks book. Preparing Your Teens for College is not a gassy theoretical work but a practical, easy-to-use map through the spiritual, social, sexual, financial, academic, and occupational minefields.

DR. MARVIN OLASKY

Editor in chief, WORLD News Group

In Preparing Your Teens for College, Alex Chediak presents parents with all the tools needed to launch their young adults successfully into college life and beyond. But what I appreciate most about this author is his insistence that each son or daughter must have his or her own new birth. The faithfulness we desire for our children comes only by personally trusting in the goodness of God enough to actually obey Jesus Christ as Lord.

GREGG HARRIS

Director of Noble Institute, conference speaker, and father of Alex and Brett Harris (bestselling authors of Do Hard Things )

At a time when both college officials and employers are recognizing that certain soft skills essential to adult success are lagging among young adults, Alex Chediaks primer on college prep is timely, informative, and effective.... Chediak lays out a sound and workable guidance plan, one oriented toward Christian faith, but accessible to all concerned parents.

DR. MARK BAUERLEIN

Professor of English, Emory University, and author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future

The common conception is that Christian teens head off to college only to have their faith, values, and character stripped from them. But Alex Chediak argues that it doesnt have to be that way. This book gives parents a wealth of helpful information as they send their kids to the halls of higher learning.

JIM DALY

President, Focus on the Family

Alex Chediak has provided guidance for parents on preparing teens for college that is at once useful, practical, and insightful as well as undergirded with a clear biblical worldview.... This book will be a great resource to any parent, youth pastor, or school guidance counselor who is involved in leading, advising, and coaching a teen for responsible Christian adulthood.

DR. DEREK J. KEENAN

Vice president, Academic Affairs, Association of Christian Schools International

In Preparing Your Teens for College, Alex helps parents realize that our hard work of preparation has a lot more to do with getting them ready for life than with getting them into the right college. And, preparation involves much less doing everything for our kids and much more equipping them to be able to do things for themselves.

KAY WILLS WYMA

Author, Cleaning House: A Moms Twelve-Month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement

In my work with Christian college students, I know that significant numbers of them arrive at school without adequate preparation for what they will encounter.... What many Christian families need at this point is some sturdy horse sense, grounded in Scripture. Preparing Your Teens for College meets this need in an admirable way.

DOUGLAS WILSON

Pastor, Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho; senior fellow and trustee, New Saint Andrews College; and author of Letter from a Christian Citizen and The Case for Classical Christian Education

This book does more than show parents that they can prepare their children for college. It offers specific, practical, wise advice on the larger task of raising teenagers.... In addition to useful tips for helping sons and daughters choose and succeed in higher education, whether at a university or a trade school, this book can function as a guide for Christian families in one of the most important tasks of parenthood: teaching children how to be adults.

DR. GENE EDWARD VEITH

Professor of literature and provost, Patrick Henry College, and author of Loving God with All Your Mind and Family Vocation

Alex Chediak has provided us with a much-needed and thoughtfully written guide for parents, guidance counselors, and educators alike. The insights found in this outstanding book will be most beneficial for those who invest the time to read and reflect upon Chediaks wise words.

DR. DAVID S. DOCKERY

President, Union University

Combining practical experience with research, Alex Chediak helps teens (and their parents) prepare for the migration to adulthood. As that migration is made increasingly later in life these days, the wisdom laced throughout this book is welcome indeed.

DR. MICHAEL HORTON

Professor of theology, Westminster Seminary California, and author of Pilgrim Theology

Preparing Your Teens for College is relevant, accessible, insightful, and practical. But best of all it is biblical. This is not a book of helpful hints from a wise man on guiding older teens. It is instead a faithful book of soundly applied biblical wisdom on guiding older teens. Alex has a rare ability to lead the reader to not just compare the Bible to the cultures expectations of what is normal, but to demonstrate the beauty that flows from submission to the Word.

DR. R. C. SPROUL JR.

Associate professor of systematics, apologetics, and philosophy, Reformation Bible College (and father of eight)

This book helps calm parents fears in sending their children to college. With tremendous insight and wisdom, Dr. Chediak helps to prepare parents to prepare their children for college. I know of no other book that deals with many of the hard questions this book helps to answer.

BURK PARSONS

Co-pastor, Saint Andrews Chapel, Sanford, Florida, and editor of Tabletalk magazine

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Preparing Your Teens for College: Faith, Friends, Finances, and Much More

Copyright 2014 by Juan Alexander Chediak. All rights reserved.

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