Preparing Sons to Provide for a Single-Income Family

by Steven Maxwell

In today's world of two-income families, preparing a son to provide for a single-income family seems an overwhelming task. Christian parents will find it helpful to have a purpose and plan as they raise sons who will one day be responsible for supporting a family. Steve Maxwell presents the groundwork for preparing your son to be a wage-earning adult. He gives practical suggestions and direction to parents for working with their sons from preschool age all the way through to adulthood. You will be challenged to evaluate your own life and example you are setting for your son...Scripture quotations from the King James Version.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction, Christian

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Anete Ābola · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an awesome book. One star less than perfect - because we don't live in America and the financial side (wages, percentages) of this is very different from the author's viewpoint on buying a house right out of highschool. With that being said, it is perfectly possible for mom to stay at home and raise children, if the father is hardworking enough. Anyway, there are a lot of good ideas on how to teach your sons goal setting, work ethic, financial planning, having a heart for taking care of your family and so on.

[Austin Anderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

There is a lot of good advice in this book.

[Kristina · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars. This book helps teach sons how to develop a heart to provide for their homes. It book cautions against allowing appetites to develop which will essentially be a waste of time and not provide value to the family. One of the things they mention is team sports. Sometimes cited as a way for children to learn to work hard with others, Maxwell explains children can develop these skills by working with siblings to develop teamwork, and by helping with home repair to develop working hard. The cost of team sports may be that the family is at the mercy of the coach's schedule. The children will be associating with others without your influence, and you may have to sacrifice important evenign routines.

[Helen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like the Ideas in this book... but, some of the ideas may be considered "extreme". I'm sure I'm not going to be able to strickly adhere to some of the suggestions he makes. the over all idea of the book, of teaching your boys, starting from the time the are very young, to learn a variety of skills and also not to have expensive hobbies and "passions" that require extra income beyond the daily needs of a family is definitely worthy of consideration for me in preparing my sons for adult life. It is written from a very Christian perspective and uses many references from the bible to add validity to the suggestions. Gave me much to think about in raising my family.

[Dan Sudfeld · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like us, the Maxwell's are a homeschool family. And since we have three sons, my interest in this book was from a practical "how-to" standpoint. But Steve Maxwell also answered the "why" question in this book. It was a very helpful book and gave me some things to think about.

[Henry]

I liked this as much for what it taught me as a grown man about a Christian life as for its advice regarding parenting. Even though I suspect I have a lot of theological differences with the author, this was a very profitable book for me.

[Timothy Tenbrink · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very practical. Some ideas seem somewhat radical but thought provoking.

[Aaron · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found some good nuggets in here but overall it wasn't too earth shattering. Some of their views, as mentioned by other reviewers are perhaps hard to come to grips with but not necessarily wrong.