That's My Teenage Son: How Moms Can Influence Their Boys to Become Good Men

I love my son so much but when he became a teenager he changed a lot. I didn't understand what happened to my sweet loving boy. This book help me understand the changes a teen boy goes through as he goes through his teens. This book really help me understand and learn more about my son and the changes taking place in his mind and body. My son and I had so much confrontation but after I read this book I was more able to understand and learn how to coop with his changing self. I really recommend it to all those single moms out there struggling with teenage sons. It's a lot harder when there is no father figure in the house as in my case. Don't give up on your son, read the book and learn to understand his changes. It makes a world of a difference.

I recently read this book with my 14 year old son in mind. I think this book addresses thoroughly many issues teen boys are facing now. It was helpful for me to read and to understand how I can contribute positively to my teenage son. It did reference his other book, That's My Son, a few times and it would be helpful to have read that previously. I have recommended this to other mom's of teenage sons. A very helpful, insightful read.

I have been looking for a good book to read about teenage sons. I am a single mother and have a soon to be 14 year old. I am a Christian woman and wanted to instill positive values in my son. I have only had this book for a week; but it is given me some important information that will help me to be a great influence in my son's life.

Great book for moms. It really helped me understand the dynamics of the relationship. I’d recommend to any boy mom.

I loved the simplicity of the writer. He explains exactly how to raise a boy to be a wonderful man. It helped me understand how my son and husband think.

This book is a great read for parents of pre-teens and teens. It discusses the importance of how and why teenage males behave in certain ways. The book addresses this and provides insight to help parents understand and help guide their teens through this time.

So far I love the book! Wish I knew when I bought it that this was the second to his first book. Love how a male dad is the writer...

I enjoyed this book very much. It has given me some good insight to understanding where my son is at emotionally and spiritually. I have already put this to use and it is working. Thank you.

This is a well-written book, which I was able to download free for my Kindle when it was on special offer a while ago. It has some interesting anecdotes here and there alongside recommendations and instructions intended for mothers with teenage boys. But I found it quite heavy going, and rather condescending in places.The book is written by an American evangelical Christian who believes in American values such as success, and a traditional (but sexist) view of masculinity. Nevertheless, the first part of the book makes some good points. Too many teenage boys go off the rails in our Western society. While women have problems too, most young people who are convicted of violent crimes are male. I was quite struck with the idea of mothers sometimes overwhelming their teenage boys with conversation, and logic, hoping to solve everything with discussion. But, the author claims, sometimes teenage boys aren’t so good with language, and feel battered by words, unable to respond.The author stresses the importance of good male role models and describes a programme he runs for fatherless boys, teaching them skills that are traditionally passed on by fathers. The course gives them new challenges, and encourages them to consider what it means to be masculine. So far so good, even if I took some of it with a little pinch of salt.Had the book ended after the first few chapters, I would probably have awarded it four or even five stars. Unfortunately, it then started delving into what the author means by ‘manliness’, and his belief in the importance of male leadership. He encourages traits such as competitiveness, and even violence (in hunting) which, to me, are a bad idea. He talks, too, about issuing difficult challenges to boys, pushing them in a way that seems to me like bullying. He makes no mention of those who would be unable to fulfil them, and would feel like failures. But in the US, failing isn’t acceptable.By the end of the book, when the author embarks on the qualities he wants to see in a young man interested in dating his daughter, the style had become so male chauvinist I almost gave up. He said that his daughter won’t even open a car door as she expects a man to do it for her, no matter how much it might inconvenience him. Politeness is good, but this is going overboard, making girls and women out to be feeble and manipulative.For the last half of the end of the book I would barely give two stars. But to be fair, since there were some good points in the early part of the book, I’ll give it three. If you read this, be prepared to pick and choose what applies to your situation, and ignore the sexism.If you can get it free or inexpensively, it’s perhaps worth perusing if you’d like a better understanding of how some men function, even if you disagree with a lot of the content.

I found this book slightly sexist even bearing in mind the obvious fact that it is about gender. That being said I also found it extremely helpful and challenging. It has helped me pray in a more specific way for my son (now 18) and try to put into place some useful strategies. I will re-read it and also buy it for friends.

Has some good advice but very repetitive.

Great read for Moms - can help understand men in general!!!