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How to Get Your Son Back: 7 Steps to Reconnect and Repair Your Relationship
Are you worried about your son's behavior, decision-making, or life direction but feel powerless to help him change? Are your attempts at communicating with your young adult son met with cold resistance, shouting matches, and slamming doors? Written by a PhD Dad and his once troubled son, this book provides first hand insight as to how to take a struggling or unmotivated son, and turn him towards greatness. Whether you want to improve communication or help your son make better decisions, How to Get Your Son 7 Steps to Reconnect and Repair Your Relationship will show you how • Stop the fighting and reestablish communication, mutual respect, and trust • Motivate and show your son how to change • Help your son heal and continually grow • Inspire your son to live his best life Discover the formula this father-turned-psychologist used to transform his own son from high school dropout, felon, and suicidal young man into a confident, compassionate college graduate, I.T. consultant, nurturing father, and loving son—and find strategies you can use to help your son flourish. You owe yourself this book if you are struggling with or want to better connect with your boy.
392 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 1, 2017
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September 27, 2020
I chose to read this by title from my own research, as a father with a son having difficulties adapting to adulthood and the abject fear of losing him. Hoping to learn something new to reach him, through that tough male exterior that is so hard to penetrate. I found this father/son account a worthwhile read, and it was indeed helpful and gave me some ideas. The main being to never give up on your loved one, and learn to listen and never preach. One must ignore the frustration of giving advice over and over again that goes unheeded, and the terror of watching a child spiral must just be endured. This book was best when both the son and father detailed what was going on from each of their perspectives, after the fact. It gave me hope and faith to stay the course, be an advocate, and mainly to maintain the relationship no matter how strong the temptation to give up. Most useful is the son’s account, where he explained his vulnerabilities hidden just beneath a strong, macho façade. It’s true about males, and how our culture expects them to no show weakness, thus preventing real progress and breakthrough until one crashes broken in the dirt, hopefully still alive. Fathers and sons have a special bond, I’m keeping mine with my son, letting him see my own imperfections, and breaking down those parent/child barriers. Keeping consistent, being a friend and advocate, is what I pledge for the son I love so much.
The book gets a tad repetitive, where it tried to be a guidebook might be good for some (I hate to read manuals and what I can remember I will take away). It is always interesting to hear of other’s lives and the father had/has many issues that were foreign to me. Yet I found his story compelling and I greatly admire his dedication to his son. This boy might not be alive if not for the love of his father. Some problems are genetic, others cultural, but the problems of the son were not entirely of his own making. Both father and son take responsibility, and that is how they healed and solved their issues. In some ways the book is as much about the father redeeming himself as the son’s rehabilitation.
Three stars because of the tedium, but this book was very much worth my time and I got from it what I needed. My appreciation goes to both authors for the effort to put this book in the public domain to help people like me and my own son. For this they have my gratitude.
The book gets a tad repetitive, where it tried to be a guidebook might be good for some (I hate to read manuals and what I can remember I will take away). It is always interesting to hear of other’s lives and the father had/has many issues that were foreign to me. Yet I found his story compelling and I greatly admire his dedication to his son. This boy might not be alive if not for the love of his father. Some problems are genetic, others cultural, but the problems of the son were not entirely of his own making. Both father and son take responsibility, and that is how they healed and solved their issues. In some ways the book is as much about the father redeeming himself as the son’s rehabilitation.
Three stars because of the tedium, but this book was very much worth my time and I got from it what I needed. My appreciation goes to both authors for the effort to put this book in the public domain to help people like me and my own son. For this they have my gratitude.
July 21, 2018
100% true
December 20, 2020
If you think you need to read this book, read this book.
June 16, 2019
Really good book
This book gives excellent insight from both prospectives of the father and son during the times of diagnosis to healing process. I recommend this book for anyone who has a son that suffers from depression and ADHD. It gives you great ways to help the healing process.
This book gives excellent insight from both prospectives of the father and son during the times of diagnosis to healing process. I recommend this book for anyone who has a son that suffers from depression and ADHD. It gives you great ways to help the healing process.
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