The Connected Father. Understanding Your Unique Role And Responsibilities During Your Child’s Adolescence.

by Carl Pickhardt

Parenting Expert Carl Pickhardt Shows How the Bonds Between Fathers and Teens Can Be StrengthenedMany fathers feel unprepared for their child's adolescence, in their denial, often times preferring to believe that it will only happen to other people's children. In this sensitive and forthright book, Carl Pickhardt stresses that fathers need to become informed about changes and challenges that normally unfold. Helping caring fathers navigate the four crucial and often perplexing stages of adolescence, The Connected Father * how fathers can learn to be better listeners * why they have trouble communicating and what to do about it* different emotional changes between mid- and late-adolescence* how to encourage independence while setting limits* how fathers can talk to teens about drugs, sex, the internet, relationships, and more

Genres: Parenting

242 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 15, 2007

About the author

Carl Pickhardt also writes as C.E. Pickhardt.

Reviews

[Douglas Lord · Rating 5 out of 5]

A psychologist and father of four, Pickhardt (The Everything Parent's Guide to the Strong-Willed Child) stresses that teens "need the supportive, salient, and stabilizing presence of a father to help anchor, structure, and guide" them through life. Like Mark O'Connell in The Good Father: On Men, Masculinity, and Life in the Family, Pickhardt makes much of the different roles of mothers and fathers while warning that teen daughters often suffer nasty effects from paternal criticism, however well intended. Though provocative and confident, the book carries a scholarly, aloof tone and lacks concrete prescription (for that, try Kevin O'Shea and James Windell's The Fatherstyle Advantage). Pickhardt essentially offers quite a male way of dealing with that teeming mass of hormones known as adolescents; he will find an appreciative audience.

[Serhan Ulga · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simple and helpful guide

Takes you through the stages of adolescence with ease and grace. A must read for every father. Good for moms too.