Building A Strong Family: Reading Challenge

How do you build a strong family? Well, the key to building a strong family starts with making intentional decisions! Here's one idea for how to take a step forward in helping your teenagers grow into the strong men and strong women God wants them to become.

"We challenged our children at 15 to read 25 books, plus write a one-page report on each book by his/her 16th birthday. Their reward would be a car. They took the challenge! The benefits are enormous! We believe the only difference between where a person is today, and where they will be in the next five years, is the people they meet and the books they read. A major unexpected benefit has been how much we now have in common because of reading the same books." - Greg Gunn

"A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others." - Abraham Lincoln

Need some ideas to get started?

Here are a few titles that we're fans of!

Boys Reading List:
- Boom: A Guys Guide to Growing Up
- Heart of an Athlete
- A Boy After God's Own Heart
- 10 Boys Who Changed the World
- A Young Man's Guide to Making Right Choices
- Guy's Guide to God, Girls, and the Phone in your Pocket
- Created for Work
- The Deceivers
- Facing Your Giants: Teen Edition

Girls Reading List:
- For Young Women Only, What You Need to Know about How Guys Think
- A Girl After God's Own Heart
- Girl Talk with God
- A Young Women's Guide to Making Right Choices
- Secret Keeper: The Delicate Power of Modesty
- Priceless: Discovering True Love, Beauty and Confidence
- Let's Talk: Good Stuff for Girlfriends, God, Guys and Growing Up
- Rock Your World: How You can Make a Difference

Books for Both Boys and Girls:
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- The Greatest Salesman in the World
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
- How to Develop the Leader in You
- Bullet Proof George Washington
- Battlefield of the Mind for Teens
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
- Do Hard Things
- The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make
- Be Intolerant: Because Some Things Are Just Stupid
- Don't Check Your Brains at the Door
- Jesus Among Other Gods
- The Case for Christ: Student Edition
- The Case for Faith: Student Edition
- In Search of Significance Student Edition

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