FatherTime: Stories on the Heart and Soul of Fathering (Paperback)

~ Chris Frey (Author), Chris Scribner (Author) "This book is for you, the good fathers everywhere who desire to go deeper into the joy and passion of fathering..." (more)
Key Phrases: Father's Day, Country Joe

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... an extraordinary tapestry of fathering that poignantly mirrors what I have been and what I could be as a father. -- JIM HOWARD, Director, Missouri Lawyers Assistance Program

...[offers] the best teaching of all, the kind that comes from day-to-day lived experience ... narrated from the... the heart. -- PETER CLOTHIER, author of While I Am Not Afraid: Secrets of a Man's Heart

FATHERTIME breaks through [the] destructive myth ... that only women know how to nurture, support and love. -- JUDITH SHERVEN, PH.D. AND JIM SNIECHOWSKI, Ph.D. authors of The New Intimacy

For too long it has been believed that only women... nurture, support, love. FatherTime breaks through that destructive myth. -- Judith Sherven, PhD and James Sniechowski, PhD, authors of The new Intimacy and Opening to Love 365 Days A Year

This insirational book struck a deep chord in this son and will touch every father. -- John Lee, author of Flying Boy I, II, and III

This wonderful, inspirational book struck a deep chord in this son and will touch every father. -- JOHN LEE, author of Flying Boy, Writing From The Body, Facing The Fire, and At My Father's Wedding

Your kids will benefit profoundly from you reading this hip, laugh-out-loud, tear-touching, enjoyable book. -- BILL KAUTH, author of A Circle of Men: The Original Manual for Men’s Support Groups

Product Description

FatherTime inspires and challenges parents toward a greater understanding of the art of fathering. The book provides a model of strong, loving fathering followed by a series of 52 brief stories which, like parenting itself, are by turns poignant, sharp-edged, and laugh-out-loud funny. The stories reveal universal themes of fathering through moments on the job that will echo the reader’s experience -- the wonder and fear of childbirth, the death of a boy's own father, weaning a toddler from the pacifier, divorce, learning to swim, the first baseball glove, a teenager's first date.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Insight Output (January 2, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970261004
• ISBN-13: 978-0970261007
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,038,616 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fathering With Heart, February 1, 2001

By	Don Wesemann (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews

FatherTime by Chris Scribner, Ph.D. and Chris Frey, MSW started out as the private journals of two men, writing notes to themselves to preserve memories of their childhood and their experiences as fathers. Perhaps that is why it is one of those books in which the authors open their hearts to share deeply of themselves and inspire the reader to open their own heart to receive what is offered. FatherTime is a gift of the heart; of two hearts. Here are stories of connection, love and admiration for their own fathers, as well as the bittersweetness of old healed wounds of childhood. FatherTime reveals that the authors, through the alchemy of their own internal work, have transformed their histories into great strengths of manhood and fatherhood; gifts of love, insight, and nurturing for the next generation. And for the rest of us fathers on the same path. The old paradigm of mothers as closer nurturers and fathers as more distant providers is fading. Fathers must be helped to see the impact they have upon the social, emotional and spiritual well-being of their sons and daughters. Both sons and daughters need to receive healthy masculine nurturing as well as feminine energy. In the past fathers have been too easily marginalized as being too emotionally shutdown to be nurturing, and therefore incapable of providing a role model for healthy adulthood, and healthy masculinity. Frey and Scribner are leading the way in demonstrating that men can be loving, sensitive, compassionate and nurturing toward children. And that men have value in the wisdom they bring. Especially out of their inner work, for our strengths as men and fathers comes as much from our healed wounds as from our blessings received. Frey and Scribner are writing about the fathers we all want to be; the gift we want to bring to our children from the core of who we are. FatherTime is best read with tears; tears of sadness and regret, tears of healing, tears of relief at the recognition of our common human experience, tears of joy and hope. Your reading will be a gift to your father, to yourself, and to your children. The hearts of these two men will change and empower the hearts of many men. Read this book....for yourself, and for the children of the world.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Refreshing, Personal Look at Fathering, April 7, 2001

By A Customer

FATHERTIME provides a refreshing, personal look at fathering, very different from other books on the issue which are more analytical and detached . . . Many fathers will identify with [these stories], and fathers-to-be will draw great benefit as well . . . a series of 52 brief but inspiring stories . . . a delight to read.

--excerpted from EVERYMAN: A Men's Journal, #48, April/May, 2001

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very moving book for fathers, March 13, 2001

By	Serge Prengel (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This is a very beautiful, very moving book. It has a very gentle and very deep way of dealing with the emotional texture of being a father. It speaks movingly about the lifelong dialogue we ursue with our own fathers, in person or in our hearts and minds, as we grow into our own roles as fathers. I found it very helpful as a guide into my own journey as a father. Serge Prengel, author, Still A Dad.