I am a reader, but unlike most of my family, I read non-fiction.  I like reading to learn.  I recently read a new book that every parent of a teen or soon-to-be teen should read.  In fact, it will be required-reading for my boys when they get older.  It's called "Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations" by Alex and Brett Harris, twin 19 year old homeschooled boys from Oregon.  These boys started a website, and an entire movement, called The Rebelution .  The book discusses God's view of teenagers and how He used them in history. Did you know that the word "teenager" wasn't even coined until the early 1900s by Readers Digest?  Before that it was just child or adult.  In the book you can read about the change that took place in our society that lead to this new group, these "teenagers".  Often today teenagers are thought of as a generation in limbo - not ready for adulthood, but not children either.  The Harris brothers argue that society has set standards and expectations so low for this generation that teens have just given up their potential and embraced those expectations.  But that is not God's truth.  The reality is that they can "do hard things".  That the teen years are the preperatory years.  They should be doing things that challenge them and prepare them for adulthood.  They should be trying new things and stretching their boundaries.  The book calls all teenagers to examine what they're doing with their lives and to do hard things for the glory of God.  It's powerful. {mos_fb_discuss:27}