The Best-Selling Parenting Boys Audiobooks of All Time

“If you’re raising a boy, you need this brilliant book. It is clear, wise, and eye-opening.” —Lisa Damour, Ph.D., author of Untangled. When boys enter puberty, they tend to get quiet—or at least quieter than before—and parents often misread their signals. Here’s how to navigate their retreat and steer them through this confusing passage, by the bestsellingauthor of The Care and Keeping of You series and Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys. What is my son doing behind his constantly closed door? What’s with his curt responses, impulsiveness, newfound obsession with gaming, and . . . that funky smell?

As pediatrician and mother of two teenagers Cara Natterson explains, puberty starts in boys long before any visible signs appear, and that causes confusion about their changing temperaments for boys and parents alike. Often, they also grow quieter as they grow taller, which leads to less parent-child communication. But, as Natterson warns in Decoding Boys, we respect their increasing “need” for privacy, monosyllabic conversations, and alone time at their peril. Explaining how modern culture mixes badly with male adolescent biology, Natterson offers science, strategies, scripts, and tips for getting it right:. • recognizing the first signs of puberty and talking to our sons about the wide range of “normal” through the whole developmental process. • why teenagers make irrational decisions even though they look mature—and how to steer them toward better choices. • managing video game and screen time, including discussing the unrealistic and dangerous nature of pornography. • why boys need emotional and physical contact with parents—and how to give it in ways they’ll accept. • how to prepare boys to resist both old and new social pressures—drugs, alcohol, vaping, and sexting. • teaching consent and sensitivity in the #MeToo culture. Decoding Boys is a powerful and validating lifeline, a book that will help today’s parents keep their sons safe, healthy, and resilient, as well as ensure they will become emotionally secure young men. Praise for Decoding Boys. “Comforting . . . a common-sensical and gently humorous exploration of male puberty's many trials.”—Kirkus Reviews.

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. It's no wonder that our sons are confused about what the world expects from them and what they should expect of themselves. The Intentional Father is the antidote. This concise book is 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 specific activities, rites of passage, and significant "marking moments" that can be customized to fit any family. It's not enough to hope our sons will become good men. We need them to be good at being men. This book shows how fathers, grandfathers, and other male mentors can lead the way.

Our boys are not simply boys; they are future men who will shape the world with their resilience. Immerse yourself in the pages of this book, where Douglas Wilson’s wisdom about true gospel-based parenting points to scripture for how to raise our boys into strong, faithful men. Embark on a profound journey with "Future Men," a remarkable Christian parenting book meticulously curated for dedicated moms and dads. Elevate your family's faith voyage through the time-honored principles of growing kids God’s way.

Douglas Wilson begins with a call to fathers, and then addresses the importance of things such as athletics and intellectual tenacity, respecting girls, developing a robust work ethic, avoiding money traps, fighting idols, and secret sin. This book pushes scriptural patterns for masculinity into all the corners of a boy’s life. With “Future Men,” forge a legacy of Christ-centered parenting values that echo through generations. Elevate your parenting with this beacon of wisdom amid a sea of books on raising boys. "Future Men" invites you to rewrite the narrative of boyhood, molding it into a robust foundation for faithful manhood. As you embark on this gospel powered parenting journey, your son’s future family will thrive, a testament to the profound impact of a faith driven family. As much as it may distress us, our boys are future men. When Theodore Roosevelt taught Sunday school for a time, a boy showed up one Sunday with a black eye. He admitted he had been fighting and on a Sunday too. He told the future president that a bigger boy had been pinching his sister, and so he fought him. TR told him that he had done perfectly right and gave him a dollar. The stodgy vestrymen thought this was a bit much, and so they let their exuberant Sunday school teacher go. What a loss. Unbelief cannot look past surfaces. Unbelief squashes; faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while that other part of he did got in the way. "And this is how to do it better next time.".