Short answer
Age of Opportunity, by Paul David Tripp, is a book specifically about the teenage years. Our founder has read it in full and recommends it, drawing on it in his own church and school presentations on raising teenagers. This page is his personal recommendation, not yet the complete, structured review our own standards call for — no rating is shown until that full review is written.
Key takeaways
- Our founder has read this book in full and recommends it, particularly for the teenage years specifically.
- This is a personal recommendation, not a completed review. See how we review.
- Paul David Tripp is the author — not to be confused with his brother Tedd Tripp, author of Shepherding a Child’s Heart, also recommended on this site.
- Title
- Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens
- Author
- Paul David Tripp
- Written for
- Parents of teenagers
- Our rating
- Not rated yet. Our founder has read this book in full, but the complete written review isn't finished. See his recommendation above in the meantime.
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Why we’re recommending it
Our founder has read Age of Opportunity in full and recommends it specifically for the teenage years, drawing on it in his own presentations to churches and schools on raising teens. He describes it as dealing directly with the challenges of parenting teenagers, sharing extensive pastoral experience and scriptural counsel for that season — including the harder moments many parents face.
Who is it for
Parents of teenagers, whether things are going smoothly or a relationship is already strained.
A note on the author
Paul David Tripp is the author of Age of Opportunity. He’s the brother of Tedd Tripp, author of the also-recommended Shepherding a Child’s Heart — two different books by two brothers, easy to mix up, both recommended here for different seasons of parenting.
Similar resources
- Shepherding a Child’s Heart — the heart-focused parenting framework this book on teenagers builds on.
Sources and further reading
- Pastoral wisdom The recommendation on this page is our founder's own, based on having read the book in full and used it in his own presentations to churches and schools on parenting teenagers.
- Expert opinion The book itself: Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens, by Paul David Tripp
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