In Boundaries with Teens, Dr. Townsend shares vital information for establishing healthy boundaries.  The book offers help in raising your teens to take responsibility for their actions, attitudes, and emotions.  It happens to us all: Those loving, usually compliant preteens turn without warning into beings from another planet distant, defiant, determined to go their own way. What are parents to do, short of tearing their hair out in despair? The spiritually based principles in Boundaries with Teens advocates easy principals to grasp and implement. First, he says, parents must come to terms with what they went through in adolescence and set boundaries in their own lives if they are lacking. That way, he says, teens have a role model for maturity, grace and truth.