Raising Real Men: Surviving, Teaching and Appreciating Boys

by Hal Young, Melanie Young

Overview

"Six boys!" folks say in mock horror, "Well, better you than me."
We answer them cheerfully - we love our boys and they're a gift from God...a reward.

Privately, though, we admit to ourselves it's not always rosy. Teenaged boys put away a startling amount of groceries. Young boys can be downright destructive. They're noisy, unconcerned with personal hygiene, and the dog has a longer attention span - or so it seems, some days.

If this is God's chosen gift to us, then why does it seem so hard? How can we prepare these boys to serve God when we can barely make it through the day. Isn't there a better way?

The answer is yes.

Raising Real Men looks beyond the untied shoes and dirty jeans to what the Lord means your son to be. Learn how to help him focus on schoolwork, find real heroes, stand alone when he needs to, and become a real man one day. Don t just survive raising boys, succeed at it and learn how to love them as they really are.

"Raising Real Men is for real men who aspire to pass on a legacy of strength, courage and fidelity to Christ our King. It encouraged me as a father. I pray it will encourage you." Dr. R.C. Sproul, Jr., Author of When You Rise Up

"Hal and Melanie Young have six sons and are disciples of Jesus. They know how to raise real men. This book is a treasure trove of practical tips to help you to raise your sons right. It will answer your questions, help you avoid mistakes, bring them up in the Lord, and understand them. I highly recommend it." Chris Klicka, Author of The Right Choice and Homeschool Heroes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984144310
Publisher:	Great Waters Press
Publication date:	01/29/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	903,275
File size:	201 KB

About the Author

Hal and Melanie Young have been blessed with six real boys (and two real girls). They frequently speak on parenting, education and family policy issues, and their articles have appeared in publications in the U.S., Canada and New Zealand including Homeschooling Today, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Homeschool Digest, School Reform News, and Conservative Citizen.

Editorial Reviews

Raising Real Men is for real men who aspire to pass on a legacy of strength, courage and fidelity to Christ our King. It encouraged me as a father. I pray it will encourage you.

Dr. R.C. Sproul, Jr

God created man male and female, people who are sexually differentiated. Our culture has spent the past thirty years in denial of that reality, thus, Hal and Melanie Young s Raising Real Men is long overdue. This book manages to be a bold corrective to the feminization of boys and men in our culture, without simply being reactionary. In an era when the church has lost a biblical concept of masculinity and femininity this book is a breath of fresh air.

Tedd Tripp

In a time when our culture seems intent on emasculating our boys, it is a real pleasure to find Christians who are pushing back, responding with biblical answers. Raising Real Men combines a number of important characteristics in giving advice to parents of young boys it is earthy, realistic, humorous and scriptural. Hal and Melanie Young write from a homeschooling setting, but much of what they have to say is also pertinent to Christian parents of boys in private Christian schools. I hope this

Douglas Wilson

Raising boys can be a tremendous challenge for parents, especially when you have more than an few. Hal and Melanie in RAISING REAL MEN, have approached this subject from a Biblical perspective and have been true to the Biblical principles laid down for raising boys. This is a book that every family should have no matter the number of boys and even those families without boys as the book gives tremendous insight into understanding how boys think and why they act as they do.

Michael Smith

As the grandfather of six boys ranging in age from two to fifteen, I am acutely aware of the need that this book fills, and quite admirably. This is just what the doctor ordered for parents who want to raise capable Christian men of character.

John Rosemond