Intentional Father
A Practical Guide to Raise Sons of Courage and Character
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4.6 • 27 Ratings
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- $10.99
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Publisher Description
Self-initiation is killing our young men. Without strong mentors, boys are walking alone into a wilderness of conflicting messages about who they should be as men. It's no wonder that our sons are confused about what the world expects from them and what they should expect of themselves.
The Intentional Father is the antidote. This concise book is filled with practical steps to help men raise sons of consequence--young men who know what they believe, know who they are, and will stand up against the negative cultural trends of our day. Jon Tyson lays out a clear path for fathers and sons that includes specific activities, rites of passage, and significant "marking moments" that can be customized to fit any family.
It's not enough to hope our sons will become good men. We need them to be good at being men. This book shows how fathers, grandfathers, and other male mentors can lead the way.
Customer Reviews
Every Father Should Read
Such deep and practical wisdom throughout! Very well written
Great book for a father to help realize his children need him
A good book that establishes the need to plan and workout steps to help your children to move from adolescence to adulthood. It also helps to restore fathers who failed to start anew
I’m Not Buying It
There is much truth in this book about how we father’s need to do better and how we are one of the only cultures without a ritual into manhood, but much of it rings hollow to me. First, I believe that deliberately causing your child to feel pain is cruel. If I had subjected my boy when he was thirteen to swimming in ice cold water, he would probably have felt hurt and betrayed. Also, the things the author claims his son said to him at such a young age seem developmentally impossible. Maybe this method of raising a son worked for him because his child is thirty years more mature than all other thirteens year old boys. Finally, while I truly believe he’s on to something that we need to change in the US when it comes to raising our boys, I just feel this is an over the top and sometime cruel way of doing it. If you do gain something from this book, the statistics and graphs and so forth are excellent. Barna, the publisher, does excellent work in this regard when it comes to collecting and analyzing data.