The Five Love Languages of Teenagers: The Secret to Loving Teens Effectively by Gary Chapman

Author:Gary Chapman
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Christian
Published: 2010-04-22T23:00:00+00:00

Speaking All Five Languages

The Benefits to Your Teen

Let me emphasize what I said earlier. I am not suggesting that you only speak the one primary love language of your teenager. Teenagers need to receive love in all five love languages, and teens need to learn to speak all five love languages. They learn best by seeing it modeled by their parents. What I am suggesting is strong doses of the teen’s primary love language and speaking the other four as often as possible. If the teenager has a clear secondary love language, the parent will also want to give heavy doses of that language. As the parents speak all five love languages to the teenager, the teenager is learning how to speak those languages to others.

This is exceedingly important to the teen’s future relationships. In the future, the teen will have neighbors, work associates, friends, dating partners, most likely a spouse, and later children to whom they will need to speak love and appreciation. If teenagers become fluent in speaking all five love languages, their relationships with people will be greatly enhanced. If, on the other hand, they are limited to speaking only one or two of the love languages, their relationship potential will be diminished. There will be certain people with whom they will not connect emotionally. These people may be significant people, even people with whom they would like to have a meaningful and lasting relationship. The teen who learns to speak the love languages fluently will have a decided advantage in all future relationships.

This may prove to be a formidable challenge for the parent who has not learned to speak all five love languages. I suggest you reread the chapters on each of the five languages—especially those that are difficult for you to speak. Note the ideas on how to speak the particular language and practice speaking it not only to your teenager but to other family members as well. Eventually you can learn to speak each of the love languages. Few things are more rewarding than expressing love to others in a language that meets their need for emotional love.

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