Intentional Father - Jon Tyson

Intentional Father

By Jon Tyson

  • Release Date: 2021-08-17
  • Genre: Christianity
Score: 4.5
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A proven plan to raise sons of integrity, faith, and consequence

Dads today are often overwhelmed with both the responsibility and the complexity of raising sons in this challenging culture. At the same time self-initiation is killing our young men. Without strong mentors, boys are walking alone into a wilderness of conflicting messages about who they should be as men.

The Intentional Father is a helpful antidote, filled with practical steps to help men raise sons of consequence--young men who know what they believe, know who they are, and will stand up against the negative cultural trends of our day. Jon Tyson lays out a clear path for fathers and sons that includes

intentional steps to take as you prepare and plan for your son's initiation into manhood
principles to guide you through each step: preparation, initiation, formation, and recognition
questions to reflect on throughout the process
stats, charts, and data visualizations based on research among fathers across America

It's not enough to hope our sons will become good men. We need them to be good at being men. This book shows new dads and fathers, grandfathers, and other male mentors how to lead the way.

Reviews

  • Great book for a father to help realize his children need him

    4
    By Wow-no perfect people allowed
    A good book that establishes the need to plan and workout steps to help your children to move from adolescence to adulthood. It also helps to restore fathers who failed to start anew
  • Every Father Should Read

    5
    By Vharr5
    Such deep and practical wisdom throughout! Very well written
  • I’m Not Buying It

    2
    By Dave in Elkridge
    There is much truth in this book about how we father’s need to do better and how we are one of the only cultures without a ritual into manhood, but much of it rings hollow to me. First, I believe that deliberately causing your child to feel pain is cruel. If I had subjected my boy when he was thirteen to swimming in ice cold water, he would probably have felt hurt and betrayed. Also, the things the author claims his son said to him at such a young age seem developmentally impossible. Maybe this method of raising a son worked for him because his child is thirty years more mature than all other thirteens year old boys. Finally, while I truly believe he’s on to something that we need to change in the US when it comes to raising our boys, I just feel this is an over the top and sometime cruel way of doing it. If you do gain something from this book, the statistics and graphs and so forth are excellent. Barna, the publisher, does excellent work in this regard when it comes to collecting and analyzing data.