Dad, you love your kids to pieces. But whether it's father-son or father-daughter, how to talk to them-and about what-can be one of the big mysteries in raising children.
Bestselling author and veteran dad Jay Payleitner comes to the rescue with a carload of great ideas about communicating those all-important life values to your kids to help them thrive. Good news is, you don't have to use a lot of words as you plant healthy thoughts about...
• Excellence: how your kids can hit home runs in life
• Emotions: experiencing and handling them as God's gift
• Integrity: being true to something beyond themselves
• Marriage: focusing on the positives, not the weeds, thorns, and crabgrass
• Immortality: living life as a friend of the One who's eternal
Jay's straightforward, man-friendly advice and stories form a terrific, confidence-boosting resource for building lifelong positives into your family. Raising children just got easier! Great gift or men's group selection.
Straightforward, man-friendly advice about communicating all-important life values to your kids. Plant healthy thoughts about excellence, emotions, integrity, marriage, immortality, and five other key character qualities. A terrific, confidence-boosting resource for building lifelong positives into your family. Great gift or men's group selection.
Jay Payleitner is one of the top freelance Christian radio producers in the United States. He has worked on Josh McDowell Radio, Today's Father, Jesus Freaks Radio for the Voice of the Martyrs, Project Angel Tree with Chuck Colson, and many others. He's also a popular speaker on parenting and marriage and the author of dozen-plus books, including the bestselling 52 Things Kids Need from a Dad, 52 Things Wives Need from a Husband, and 52 Things Sons Need from Their Dad; he also created "The Dad Manifesto." Jay has also served as an AWANA director, a wrestling coach, and the executive director of the Illinois Fatherhood Initiative; he now partners with the National Center for Fathering, whose efforts he fosters and promotes. He and his wife, Rita, live near Chicago, where they've raised five great kids and loved on ten foster babies.
