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Raising teenagers is one of the toughest jobs in the world, especially if you desire to raise them according to God's standard. In an age that is fully laced with exposures to the internet and social media, parenting generally is a huge task. Whoever is not ready to make the sacrifices needed to meet up with the demands and the responsibilities of raising a family in this unique generation will find it quite difficult to cope, and worse still, will have many genuine excuses for his/her failures in parenting later on in life.Whoever claims child-rearing is more difficult than raising teenagers, has not really raised a teen yet. Learning to be parents to teenagers is extremely more demanding than parenting generally, especially with the volume of information available at the fingertips of these teens. It takes a lot of effort, training, education, and reorientation, especially if you desire to do it in the way of the Lord. Due to the huge effort required, most parents are awfully exhausted from their experiences of raising their teenagers. Raising teens of exceptional qualities takes tremendous efforts and will likely stretch you extensively. This is because most teenagers naturally do not think things through before taking actions, since they are not yet as experienced as adults, and actions taken at such times can bring out the worst in their parents. Once in a while, they can get you confused as to what a good parent really is! At some point, it is not unusual to start feeling as though you are losing control of them. In fact, most parents of the social-media-generation teens feel exactly as you do. They feel they really need help in order to do a better parenting job. So, you are not alone on this bumpy road. At times, you just feel like a total failure, because, no matter how hard you try, there seems to be no visible improvement in either their lifestyle or their way of doing things. It appears as though they find it very difficult to do the right things and alw