From the cradle to college, tell your sons the truth about life before they believe the culture’s lies.
For parents with boys newborn to eighteen,
5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Son is as essential as those Legos you’re still finding under the sofa cushions and the garage full of sports equipment. Award-winning youth culture commentator Vicki Courtney helps moms and dads pinpoint and prepare the discussions that should be ongoing in their sons’ formative years.
To fully address the dynamic social and spiritual issues and other influencers at hand, several chapters are written for each of the conversations, which are:
1. Don’t define manhood by the culture’s wimpy standards; it’s okay to be a man!
2. What you don’t learn to conquer may become your master.
3. Not everyone’s doing it! (And other naked truths about sex you won’t hear in the locker room.)
4. Boyhood is only for a season. P.S. It’s time to grow up!
5. Godly men are in short supply—dare to become one!
The book also offers invaluable tips on having these conversations across the various stages of development: five and under, six to eleven, twelve and up.
Having a boy in each of the three catagories, five and under, six to eleven,and twelve and up, I thought this would be the perfect book for me to review, and it was! It was really neat to read how each topic could be applied to each stage of life. I also liked how the tips and advice given, applied to every type of personality. My 13-year-old and seven-year-old couldn’t be more different, but I felt like this book’s advice was just as useful, even with conflicting personalities. My favorite chapter was the one about “helicopter moms”. I don’t think I actually qualified as one, but it was interesting to see how detrimental “hovering” over your son’s every move can be. I find myself allowing my kids to make their own choices, and letting them see the consequences, a little more now, than before. In this world where morals seem to be a thing of the past, it is wonderful to see that there are still good people out there, trying to help us raise our kids with values and steer us in the right direction. I will definitely be reading this book more than once as my younger kids get older. I would recommend this book to anyone lucky enough to be raising boys!
5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Son can be found on Vicki Courtney’s Website or on Amazon and retails for $14.99.
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Disclosure: I received 5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Son for free in order to try the product and form an opinion for this review. I was not compensated in any other manner. The opinions expressed above are my own.