52 Things Sons Need from Their Dads

What Fathers Can Do to Build a Lasting Relationship

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• Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9780736957816
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Theology & Religion

Perfect? No. But you're still the right dad for your boy. Bestselling author Jay Payleitner, dad of four grown sons (and one amazing daughter), gives you a bucketful of man-friendly ideas on how build a father-and-son relationship. Good news is, you don't have to say a lot. By your life and example, you can show your boy why it's good to be a guy demonstrate how to treat women well teach him to work hard and have fun, often at the same time show him how to live with honesty and self-respect give him the inner confidence to live a purposeful life These 52 quick-to-read chapters offer great ways to relate or spend time as dad and son. And each idea provides a new building block for a father-son relationship that will help your boy along the path to becoming a man.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Foreword by Jerry Jenkins
• The Father–Son Staredown
• 1. To Be a Student of His Growing Son
• 2. To Not Kill the Creepy Centipede Right Away
• 3. To Know He Is Not a Clone
• 4. To Not Be Dazzled by the Digital Age
• 5. To Teach Him Stuff Your Dad Taught You
• 6. To Treat Him like a Future Dad
• 7. To Finish the Insect Collection
• 8. To Have Him Ditch School to Take Some Cuts in the Cage
• 9. To Pick Your Battles
• 10. To Always, Always, Always Have an Inflating Needle Handy
• 11. To Teach Him the True Purpose of Competition
• 12. To Purchase the Entire Wendy’s Dollar Menu. Twice.
• 13. To Think Before You Click
• 14. To Buy a Unicycle
• 15. To Get a New Hobby
• 16. To Be the Smartest Man in the World
• 17. To Bequeath Some Mad Skills
• 18. To Be His Sparring Partner
• 19. To Finally Grasp That Poem You Read Back in High School
• 20. To Bestow Quiet Courage
• 21. To Remember What It Was Like
• 22. To Follow Through on Punishments
• 23. To Put a Positive Spin on Video Games
• 24. To Stir the Conversation Pot
• 25. To Sign Him Up for a Traveling Sports Team
• 26. To Respond to Blunders with “Did You Learn Anything?”
• 27. To Train Him to Trust Wisely
• 28. To Help Him Not Choke in the Clutch
• 29. To Expose Him to the Dark Side
• 30. To Really Love His Mom
• 31. To Cut Him a Few Deals
• 32. To Defend Twenty-First-Century Chivalry
• 33. To Take the Generational Challenge
• 34. To Not Be the Jerk in the Stands
• 35. To Insist He Come to a Men’s Event
• 36. To Work
• 37. To Break Open the Oil Paints
• 38. To Be Disappointed in Him
• 39. To Confirm That Losing Ain’t All Bad
• 40. To Let Him Skim the Pool, Build a Tree Fort, and Sweep the Porch
• 41. To Open a Dozen Doors to Spiritual Truth
• 42. To Teach Him How to Build a Fire. Without Matches.
• 43. To Let Boys Be Boys
• 44. To Help Him See His Truest Value
• 45. To Schedule Mountaintop Connections
• 46. To Say Yes, So You Can Say No
• 47. To Give Your Blessing
• 48. To Calmly Stop the Tractor
• 49. To Teach Him How to Shake Hands
• 50. To Never Forget He’s Watching and Learning
• 51. To Pass the Torch
• 52. To Be There
• Notes
• Books by Jay Payleitner
• About the Author
• The National Center for Fathering
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• Also by Jay Payleitner
• Other Helpful Resources from Harvest House
• About the Publisher