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Raising Emotionally Strong Boys – Tools Your Son Can Build On for Life

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Raising Emotionally Strong Boys by David Thomas offers practical guidance rooted in 25 years of counselling experience to help parents and caregivers understand and support boys through emotional challenges like anger, anxiety, and depression. The book emphasises building resourcefulness, self-awareness, resilience, and empathy, ultimately fostering a Christ-like sense of masculinity that benefits boys throughout life.
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This book is ideal for parents, grandparents, teachers, and anyone involved in the upbringing of boys who want to develop their emotional strength with a spiritual foundation.

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How can you help raise your sons to handle difficult emotions and process complex ideas of masculinity? Drawing from 25 years of counseling, David Thomas explains what's behind their anger issues, anxiety, and depression, and shares how to foster emotional intelligence within your sons by teaching them healthy, constructive ways to express their emotions.

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About those meltdowns, blowups, and one-word answers... Some say that's just how boys are—prone to outbursts or sullenness. But what's behind these and other issues? Drawing from twenty-five years of counselling boys and working with parents, David Thomas sheds light on common emotional struggles, including anger, anxiety, and depression, and shares practical ways you can help your son be:

Resourceful—equipped to work through his emotions in constructive ways

Aware—so that he better understands himself, including his strengths and weaknesses

Resilient—having the capacity to cope and feel competent

Empathetic—able to understand the feelings and experiences of others

Helpful also for grandparents, teachers, and anyone else who has a boy in their life, this book shows how a strong emotional foundation leads to a Christ-like sense of masculinity that will serve him well his whole life.

This book is the most impactful, practical, and applicable playbook for raising young men that we have read to date." — TIM and ELISABETH HASSELBECK, ESPN analyst and bestselling author

"David Thomas is someone I go to as a resource when it comes to parenting—especially parenting a boy." — RACHEL CRUZE, #1 New York Times bestselling author and host of The Rachel Cruze Show

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780764239984

Publisher: Baker Publishing Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 August 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 278g

Pages: 192

About the Author

David Thomas, LMSW, is the director of family counseling at Daystar Counseling Ministries in Nashville, Tennessee, and is the author or coauthor of ten books, including the bestselling Wild Things: The Art of Nurturing Boys. He speaks across the country at parenting events and is a frequent guest on national television shows and podcasts, and he cohosts his own podcast called Raising Boys and Girls. David and his wife, Connie, have a daughter, twin sons, and a yellow lab named Owen.

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