5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Son: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Vicki Courtney

Overview

From the cradle to college, tell your sons the truth about life before they believe the culture’s lies.
 
For mothers with boys newborn to eighteen, 5 Conversations You MustHave with Your Son is simply a must-have book. Award-winning youth culture commentator Vicki Courtney helps moms and dads pinpoint and prepare the discussions that should be ongoing in a boy’s formative years.
Fully addressing the dynamic social and spiritual issues and
other influencers at hand, several chapters are written for each
of the conversations, which are:

1. Don’t let the culture define you
2. Guard your heart
3. Have a little sex respect
4. Childhood is only for a season
5. You are who you’ve been becoming
The book also includes questions at the end of each conversation to help facilitate individual or group study.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781462796304
Publisher:	B&H Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/01/2019
Edition description:	Revised, Expanded
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	1,107,470
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

VICKI COURTNEY is a speaker and the best-selling author of many books and Bible studies. She is a past ECPA Christian Book Award winner and a trusted resource among parents. Vicki and her husband have three grown children, a son-in-love, two daughters-in-love, four grandsons and a granddaughter. They live in Austin, Texas where they are blessed to have their children and grandchildren living nearby. More information can be found at VickiCourtney.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Conversation 1 Don't let the culture define you 7

Chapter 1 A Time for Everything 9

Chapter 2 Wired for Adventure 22

Chapter 3 Masculinity Redefined 42

Conversation 2 Guard your heart 57

Chapter 4 The Tech Natives Are Restless 59

Chapter 5 Porn: A Virtual Reality 80

Chapter 6 Raising a Wise Guy 101

Conversation 3 Have a little sex respect 115

Chapter 7 Beyond the Birds and Bees 117

Chapter 8 Play Now, Pay Later 130

Chapter 9 A New and Improved Sex Talk 144

Conversation 4 Childhood is only for a season 161

Chapter 10 Real Man or Peter Pan? 163

Chapter 11 Ready Set, Launch 179

Chapter 12 Family Man: An Endangered Species 195

Conversation 5 You are who you've been becoming 215

Chapter 13 Raising Up a Gentleman 217

Chapter 14 Grounded for Life 235

Chapter 15 The Heart of the Matter 251

Appendix: Talk Sheets 265

Notes 281