Publication Date: May 25, 2012 | Series: The Hot Buttons Series (Book 1)
The uniquely packaged Hot Buttons Series is an accessible, quick-reference resource that parents can use to equip their children to make the right decisions, even in the face of peer pressure and outside influences. More than just another how-to manual, Hot Button Internet edition offers practical real-life situations that parents can read and discuss with their preteens. Topics discussed include: internet activity, file sharing, social networking, and internet predators. Author, mom, and broadcaster, Nicole O’Dell provides short scenarios followed by three or four responses that a teen might choose in that particular situation. Parents are then encouraged to help their children explore the issue, ask questions, and discuss the options, so when a similar situation comes up in real life, the teens are already prepared to respond.
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"This series is the answer to the cry of my heart. It's wise, tactical, and preemptive. I've never had another parenting book give me tingles and make me shout, 'Yes! This is it!' I feel empowered and inspired as a parent and have already implemented the Hot Buttons strategies." ~Jill Williamson, Christy-Award winning author
From the Back Cover
She gets a friend request from a complete stranger...
He clicks a link that brings him to a dirty website...
She posts a picture online to feel popular...
He wants to meet up with guys from a chat room...
How would your teens respond to these and other Internet challenges? What can you--as their parent--do to help them make the right choices?
In the Hot Buttons series, teen expert, Nicole O'Dell, offers an innovative strategy for leading kids to make good decisions. She helps you identify the issues your tweens and teens will face; offers check-points, Bible verses, and discussion starters; and provides strategic scenarios you can use to ask your kids what they would do if...
It's hard work to lead your teens to choose God's ways over the world's ways, but with Nicole O'Dell's strategic scenarios, you can be confident that today's decisions will be tomorrows successes.
Youth-culture expert, Nicole O'Dell, resides in Paxton, Illinois, with her husband and six children--the youngest of which are toddler triplets. She's the founder of Choose NOW Ministries (www.choose-now.com), dedicated to battling peer pressure and guiding teens through tough issues while helping parents encourage good decisions, and host of Choose NOW Radio: Parent Talk and Teen Talk (www.choosenowradio.com), where "It's all about choices!" On air, O'Dell covers peer pressure, dating, purity, drugs, alcohol, modesty, popularity, and anything else that comes up along the way. Nicole writes and speaks to preteens, teenagers, and parents about how to prepare for life's tough choices.
She's author of YA fiction, including the popular Scenarios for Girls interactive fiction, which offers readers alternate endings, allowing them to decide what the main character does, and the Diamond Estates Series based on her experiences as a resident at Teen Challenge as a teenager. Her non-fiction for teens includes Girl Talk, 2/1/12, which she wrote with her two daughters based on their popular advice column.
Nicole's desire to bridge the gap between parents and teens is evident in her parenting non-fiction like the Hot Buttons, series aimed at helping parents handle tough issues with their tweens and teens before they pop up in real life. Watch for Hot Buttons books on subjects like dating, Internet activity, sexuality, prejudice, friendships, politics, and many more. For more information on Nicole O'Dell or her books, or to schedule Nicole for a speaking event or interview, visit www.nicoleodell.com. Podcasts of Choose NOW Radio are available at www.chooseNOWradio.com.
Great quote: "The battle we fight in protecting, shielding, and preparing our teens for life's hot-button issues isn't as black-and-white as a physical battle in which the wins and losses can be easily quantified. We must often blindly face the battles for our kids, operating more on faith than on sight, being obedient to the call of Christ and reliant on the leading of the Holy Spirit." Internet Edition, Page 22
Being a parent of a teen can be challenging, especially in the age of internet, smart phones and must much more that can compete for our teen's attention. Adults know how scary the world can be and yet we know that teens want to be out exploring the world more and more each day. What is a parent to do?
Nicole O'Dell has written a series of books designed especially for Christian parents of teens. Two books, Dating Edition and Internet Edition, have already been released. Two more books, Sexuality Edition and Drugs Edition, are scheduled to be released Fall 2012.
The books are short, easy to understand and filled with Godly advice on many worldly subjects that teens face. What is packed in between these covers is advice that just might save your teens' life and mend any cracks in the parent/teen relationship that can be brewing. The advice is straightforward, but from a Christian standpoint which makes the books very convicting to any parent trying to raise Godly men and women.
The first part of each book details why it is so important for parents to talk to their kids about specific issues which author Nicole O'Dell calls "Hot Button" topics. The second part of each book lays out each specific Hot Button issues for the topic. For example, in the Internet Edition some Hot Button topics are on-line predators and Internet porn. The last section of each book contains scenarios that can be used as conversation starters.
These books are timely and interesting, even if the topics are scary for any parent to read about. My only concern is that these books target parents of teens, but parents might want to actually target tweens with this information. In this scary day and age, children need parental advice on these difficult subjects much earlier and earlier.
I received the Dating Edition and the Internet Edition complimentary from Kregel in exchange for an honest review but the opinions in this review are all mine.
Great quote: "The battle we fight in protecting, shielding, and preparing our teens for life's hot-button issues isn't as black-and-white as a physical battle in which the wins and losses can be easily quantified. We must often blindly face the battles for our kids, operating more on faith than on sight, being obedient to the call of Christ and reliant on the leading of the Holy Spirit." Internet Edition, Page 22
Being a parent of a teen can be challenging, especially in the age of internet, smart phones and must much more that can compete for our teen's attention. Adults know how scary the world can be and yet we know that teens want to be out exploring the world more and more each day. What is a parent to do?
Nicole O'Dell has written a series of books designed especially for Christian parents of teens. Two books, Dating Edition and Internet Edition, have already been released. Two more books, Sexuality Edition and Drugs Edition, are scheduled to be released Fall 2012.
The books are short, easy to understand and filled with Godly advice on many worldly subjects that teens face. What is packed in between these covers is advice that just might save your teens' life and mend any cracks in the parent/teen relationship that can be brewing. The advice is straightforward, but from a Christian standpoint which makes the books very convicting to any parent trying to raise Godly men and women.
The first part of each book details why it is so important for parents to talk to their kids about specific issues which author Nicole O'Dell calls "Hot Button" topics. The second part of each book lays out each specific Hot Button issues for the topic. For example, in the Internet Edition some Hot Button topics are on-line predators and Internet porn. The last section of each book contains scenarios that can be used as conversation starters.
These books are timely and interesting, even if the topics are scary for any parent to read about. My only concern is that these books target parents of teens, but parents might want to actually target tweens with this information. In this scary day and age, children need parental advice on these difficult subjects much earlier and earlier.
I received the Dating Edition and the Internet Edition complimentary from Kregel in exchange for an honest review but the opinions in this review are all mine.
Hot Buttons.....Dating Edition and Internet Edition.....by Nicole O'Dell
I had the privilege of reading and reviewing two of the Hot Button Series books, The Dating Edition and The Internet Edition. I was amazed at the wealth of information I found in both of these little books. Nicole O'Dell gives teens and tweens a series of books that will help in making difficult decisions on each of the subjects in these books.
In the Internet Edition, Nicole talks about Internet activity, social networking, sharing files with others, internet porn and predators. And she also gives help to parents on how to protect your child, and know what your child is looking at on the web. And she goes to the scripture and shares what that Bible teaches, and how young people should act as the use the Internet.
In the Dating Edition, the author uses the same outline, only talks about dating starting with the early boy-girl relationship. She hits on whether or not to date, missionary dating, physical attraction and violence and abuse in dating. And again, talks about protective procedures, uses scripture and the Armor of God and Strategic Scenarios for both parents and teens.
I have to say I was very impressed with the two books I read in this Series. One really special thing about the series is that is gives parents and teens a chance to talk about these difficult subjects. With a study guide at the end of each book, the questions are already there for discussion, making it much easier on both the young person and their parents.
I highly recommend this series to anyone who has children. They are written for tween/teens, depending on the subject, but if you have younger children, they will be this age before you know it, so grab a copy of these books for your home library. You may be surprised the impact these books will have on your family.
I received this book free from Kregel Publishing. I was not required or expected to write a positive review. The opinions here are my own.
