Ten Conversations You Must Have with Your Son: Preparing Your Son for a Happy and Successful Life

by Tim Hawkes

Internationally recognized expert on raising and educating boys, Dr. Tim Hawkes shows parents of tween and teen boys how to approach difficult but important conversations.
 
Every parent of a teenage boy knows there are certain conversations they must have with their son but often they put them off--or worse, don't have them at all--because they simply don't know where to start. In  Ten Conversations You Must Have With Your Son , Dr. Hawkes provides parents with the essential information you need to negotiate your way through what can often be very difficult territory about the why, what, and how of ten key love, identity, values, leadership, achievement, sex, money, health, living together, and resilience.
 
Each chapter offers suggestions for how you can connect with your sons on these issues while sharing your own experiences and knowledge with your boys.
 
A headmaster of 25 years, Dr. Hawkes is in a unique position to know what goes on inside the minds of teenage boys. He understands what they need to know to best prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities, challenges and demands that life will make on them.

Ten Conversations You Must Have With Your Son is the one book anyone with a teenage son should read to help them prepare him for adulthood.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

336 pages, Paperback

Published October 11, 2016

Reviews

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

With two boys, thought any additional advice is good advice. There were times I wanted to highlight things but it is a library book. Some sections you may feel the need to flip through, while others are a must read. It's a fairly quick read though. Lots of food for thought.

[Viti · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the first book I completed in the New Year. I found it extremely helpful as a mom and foster mom.

The writer drew on his personal experiences and rather than have an authoritarian tone; he "spoke" with humility and compassion.

Five stars from me:)

[Donia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good book and an easy read. I have donated it to my local Court Appointed Special Advocates office in hopes that it will be passed along and used by either advocates working with young men or to foster or biological parents.
Sage Advice.

[Sean · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked and would recommend this book, but for some reason when I'm rating it I can't bring myself to put it at 4 stars. Something about it just wasn't compelling to me. Maybe because it didn't have as coherent a central thesis as "How to talk so..." or "How to raise an adult" or "The Danish Way of Parenting" and was more of a bullet list of important things to talk to your son about it felt like less of a revelation and more of a useful to do list with some worthwhile ideas on how to approach or handled different topics. The structure was sound, the advice seems worthwhile, I had a lot of takeaways from the book, but it didn't blow me away. There's a lot worse things I could say about a book than that.

[Cottonball · Rating 5 out of 5]

From the experiences of a father and Headmaster in Australia. A very well organized book. Written with small examples and point form to illustrate all the topics to consider about being a world citizen.

[Emma Steel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Audiobook - does this count towards my reading challenge?

Some useful tips for difficult conversations.

[Ashley Garay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy read. Good information.