Raising and Mentoring Black teen boys PLAYBOOK FOR CHRISTIAN MANHOOD: 12 Key Plays for Black Teen Boys JAMES C. PERKINS www.playbookforchristianmanhood.wordpress.com

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS PLAYBOOK FOR CHRISTIAN MANHOOD: 12 Key Plays for Black Teen Boys THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK This book provides young boys with strategies that will guide them around the traps that lead them to destroy themselves. It will empower them to live a successful and productive life.

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS PLAYBOOK FOR CHRISTIAN MANHOOD : 12 Key Plays for Black Teen Boys HOW TO USE THE BOOK This book can be used by an individual, parent, mentor, or any positive adult to help a teen think about and plan a strategy to address the issues raised in each chapter. It is formatted like a football playbook using football analogies that capture and retain the interest of the reader. At the end of each chapter, there is a work section to guide the reader on the key areas needed to focus and grasp the principles discussed.

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS PLAYBOOK FOR CHRISTIAN MANHOOD : 12 Key Plays for Black Teen Boys PURPOSE OF THIS SEMINAR The lessons in this seminar will help teens to think carefully about their everyday decisions and choose a positive outcome for their life. Tips will be provided from each chapter of the book that will help teens embrace themselves, their responsibilities, and their potential. This seminar will give teachers, parents, and mentors a better understanding of their pivotal role in the process of developing teens of character, leadership, and responsibility.

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS Chapter One KNOW WHO YOU ARE You are NOT who people say you are You are NOT who you think you are You are who God says you are

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS Chapter Two: KNOW YOUR PURPOSE Discover your purpose by asking: What problem would I like to use my life to solve? What do I want to do to make the world a better place?

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS Chapter Three THE VALUE OF EDUCATION Education is still the best stair step to a productive future Being smart is not “acting white”

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS Chapter Four A MAN AND HIS MONEY Decide to get money the honest way What can you do to generate income legitimately

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS Chapter Five DEALING WITH PARENTS (GUARDIANS) Parents or guardians are the first people who teach us about authority Most times, parents and guardians have our best interest in mind

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS Chapter Six THE BOYS AND THE GIRLS Like you, girls are made in the image of God They are not objects to be used to gratify our sexual desire We must honor our sexuality

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS Chapter Seven FRIENDSHIP: OUR BROTHER’S KEEPER Nobody is your friend who encourages you or helps you do wrong A friend is a person who encourages you to be your best

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS Chapter Eight THERE IS A LEADER IN YOU Do not follow others in order to be accepted Be strong enough to live by your own principles

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS Chapter Nine WHEN THINGS DON’T WORK THE WAY YOU THOUGHT THEY WOULD Everybody will experience disappointment Do not allow disappointment to cause you to think of yourself as a victim Life does not end because all your dreams don’t come true

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS Chapter Ten YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF GOD Develop good health habits Drinking, smoking, and drugging is not manly. It is self destructive.

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS Chapter Eleven SHOULDERING YOUR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY You owe it to yourself and the world to make your community a better place. Use your life to improve the quality of life for others.

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS Chapter Twelve LEAVING A LEGACY Leave a relationship where you will be missed Leave an example that’s worth imitating Leave a situation better because you lived.

RAISING AND MENTORING BLACK TEEN BOYS CONCLUSION Let’s start a national ground swell of intentional effort to challenge our boys to change their culture from negative self-destructive behaviors to being the smart positive young men they can be.

Raising and Mentoring Black teen boys PLAYBOOK FOR CHRISTIAN MANHOOD: 12 Key Plays for Black Teen Boys JAMES C. PERKINS www.playbookforchristianmanhood.wordpress.com