The Boyfriend Test: The Lighter Side of Parenting Teenage Girls and the Boys They Date

By Joseph E. Devlin

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971895945
• ISBN13: 9780971895942
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Blue River Pr
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Funny yet insighful!

I think the beauty of this book is it addresses what can be an awkward (yet normal) part of life in such a way as to take some of the sting out. Thinking of your children as sexual creatures makes most of us go "ACKKK!" but we had better address it reasonably or we *won't* know what's going on, and that is bad news. This book offers a way to ease into that discussion with our daughters, and humor is such an integral part of our family dialogue anyway, this will make it much easier! I plan to get a copy for each of my girls! What an excellent (and funny!) resource!

A book all parents with teenage kids should read.

This book is not only funny but very insightful. It opened several doors of communication between my sixteen year old daughter and myself. I am able to get needed information about the boy she is dating while sharing a few laughs at the same time. I have given this test to a couple of boys now, she is actually making better and more concious choices of the boys she is choosing date. She now looks at boys wandering if they would pass the test or not.I love this book and would recommend it to any parent that has a teenager in the dating scene.

What A Great Read,

Funny and well written, this book shows the reality of parenthood and I laughed throughout out the entire book. It reminded me of my father, and how much I am like my parents when dealing with my own kids and the sense of humor you have to have to be a parent in today's culture. I'd reccomend this book to everyone. I also like the fact that the author is a guy who is just a father dealing with the same problems and teenager issues, making it easy to relate to him, from a personal perspective. I have told all my friends about it, and I will be giving the test to every boy that wants to date my daughter.