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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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?

7. 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”

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

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