How to Get Your Son Back: 7 Steps to Reconnect and Repair Your Relationship

by Kevin Fall

Are you worried about your teen's behavior, decision-making, or life direction but feel powerless to help them change? Are your attempts at communicating with your child met with cold resistance, shouting matches, and slamming doors? While this book includes details relevant to raising a son, the overall principles also apply to troubled daughters. Whether you want to improve communication or help your struggling teen make better choices, How to Get Your Son 7 Steps to Reconnect and Repair Your Relationship will show you how - Stop the fighting and reestablish communication, mutual respect, and trust - Motivate and show your teen how to change - Help your teen heal and continually grow - Inspire your teen to live their best life Read how this parent-turned-psychologist helped his son transform from high school dropout, felon, and suicidal young man into a confident, compassionate college graduate, nurturing father, and loving son--and find strategies you can use to help your teen flourish.

390 pages, Hardcover

Published November 9, 2017

Reviews

[Ned · Rating 3 out of 5]

I chose to read this by title from my own research, as a father with a son having difficulties adapting to adulthood and the abject fear of losing him. Hoping to learn something new to reach him, through that tough male exterior that is so hard to penetrate. I found this father/son account a worthwhile read, and it was indeed helpful and gave me some ideas. The main being to never give up on your loved one, and learn to listen and never preach. One must ignore the frustration of giving advice over and over again that goes unheeded, and the terror of watching a child spiral must just be endured. This book was best when both the son and father detailed what was going on from each of their perspectives, after the fact. It gave me hope and faith to stay the course, be an advocate, and mainly to maintain the relationship no matter how strong the temptation to give up. Most useful is the son’s account, where he explained his vulnerabilities hidden just beneath a strong, macho façade. It’s true about males, and how our culture expects them to no show weakness, thus preventing real progress and breakthrough until one crashes broken in the dirt, hopefully still alive. Fathers and sons have a special bond, I’m keeping mine with my son, letting him see my own imperfections, and breaking down those parent/child barriers. Keeping consistent, being a friend and advocate, is what I pledge for the son I love so much.

The book gets a tad repetitive, where it tried to be a guidebook might be good for some (I hate to read manuals and what I can remember I will take away). It is always interesting to hear of other’s lives and the father had/has many issues that were foreign to me. Yet I found his story compelling and I greatly admire his dedication to his son. This boy might not be alive if not for the love of his father. Some problems are genetic, others cultural, but the problems of the son were not entirely of his own making. Both father and son take responsibility, and that is how they healed and solved their issues. In some ways the book is as much about the father redeeming himself as the son’s rehabilitation.

Three stars because of the tedium, but this book was very much worth my time and I got from it what I needed. My appreciation goes to both authors for the effort to put this book in the public domain to help people like me and my own son. For this they have my gratitude.

[Eric Butler · Rating 4 out of 5]

100% true

[Laurie Collyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you think you need to read this book, read this book.

[LAKIA · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good book

This book gives excellent insight from both prospectives of the father and son during the times of diagnosis to healing process. I recommend this book for anyone who has a son that suffers from depression and ADHD. It gives you great ways to help the healing process.