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The Father Connection: How You Can Make the Difference in Your Child's Self-Esteem and Sense of Purpose

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I was waiting for my wife to finish her visit to the maturnity store at our local mall when I saw a christian book store. Not wanting to watch pain dry on a slow and uneventful day at the mall I decided to browse. My wife was pregnant (but has now recently delivered our first child) so I took a look through the parenting section. I was unaware of the book store's employee standing behind me until I heard, "Everytime we get that book in it immediately fly's off the shelf." A little startled I turned around to see a lovely middle aged women with a beaming smile behind me. She then informed me, "it has done quite well since Dr. Dobson featured it on his show." I know many of you probably know who Dr. Dobson is but I don't. Still, I figured I would give it a shot. After all I havent' encountered a lot of christian books on fathering.

The premise of the book is fairly simple: Learn about fathering by having your heavenly father as the example. Josh McDowell does a phenominal job of not only teaching you how to be a better daddy, but he also helps bring to your attention the things (great and small) that your heavenly father does for you. He helps the reader take an honest look at their life without condemnation, and teaches the reader how to tap into God's awesome power, and then with Gods help you can have confidence in any situation. This book isn't so much a do and don't book as it's greatest strength is teaching you how good of a daddy God is and then encouraging you to mimic his example. Will we fail? You bet. But our God is bigger than our faults and can use our mistakes to teach our children to confess when their wrong. Not only that but I found that it helped build a stronger relationship between myself and my heavenly father which I know will translate into an even stronger relationship with my wife, and my newborn son.

It's good to note that there is a fantastic list of things a father can do with his children in the back. Great suggestions.

God Bless You.

Makes you realize how important a father's role is. Great book with lots of good ideas - concrete and ones you can use.

Before I had kids, I had all these things I planned on doing. All these ideas for how I was going to do better than my Dad. Then my first came along, and it all was forgotten. This book presents practical ways to demonstrate your faith to your kids, and gives good guidelines for how a Christian Daddy should conduct himself (By modeling the kind of Dad that God IS, and not what we THINK he is). Chapters are short, but have excellent content. It has gotten me back on track in some areas I was slipping up. Highly recommended.

One of the best simple guides to core skills of being the best father you can be that I know of. Josh is an excellent writer and knows more about teens and young adults than most anyone because of his work with them for more than 30 years. Read it and keep it handy to refer back to!

This book is full of great advice and really reminds you of how important it is to spend time with your kids. I can only read a couple of pages at a time because I just want to get up and play with my kids everytime I pick it up! It also helped me to see the opportunities that exist everyday to build our kids into children who love God. You will love this book!

If you're a father that is completely clueless, then this is the book for you. Otherwise, it's about as "good" as 99.9% of other "how to be a good father" books, but with Bible versus. Some of the stories that the author uses seem so far fetched that they come off as fabricated, but even if they are, the use of the stories as metaphors will do the job for a host of fathers that, again, have no clue.