The Heart of a Father: How You Can Become a Dad of Destiny
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Every father has a hidden longing to see his children surpass him. To help him achieve this, Ken Canfield offers a three-part plan. First, a dad should examine his own heart. Next, he should take steps to improve the way he connects with his children. Lastly, he should take a longer range view and plan specifically for a lifetime of involved fathering. Canfield's plan addresses a father's past-a father should resolve his relationship with his own father in order to effectively build a relationship with his children. Canfield also explains how to build the four "walls" or dimensions, of fathering: involvement, awareness, consistency, and nurturing. He then supplies a plan for the future. From being a new father to being a grandfather, dads face challenges at each stage of their life. With the long-range perspective this book provides, fathers can anticipate and prepare for the changing situations they'll face. Based on years of careful research involving thousands of fathers, this book is a solid reference tool for dads.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: The Shape of Your Heart
Introduction: Examining Your Heart
1. Recognize Your Past
2. Resolve Your Past
3. Relate to Your Own Father
Part 2: The Four "I CANs" of Fathering
Introduction: Building a House
4. Involvement
5. Consistency
6. Awareness
7. Nurturance
Part 3: The Disciplined Heart
Introduction: Through the Years
8. The Early Years: Attachment/Idealism
9. The Middle Years: Understanding
10. The Teen Years: Enlightenment
11. The Later Years: Reflection and Generativity
The nation’s foremost fathering expert has written the definitive book on being a dad for the next decade. The Heart of a Father is like putting a turbo charger on your fathering engine—your mileage and enjoyment are guaranteed to improve.
-Gary Smalley, President and founder of Smalley Relationship Center
-Gary Smalley, President and founder of Smalley Relationship Center
Product Details
- Title : The Heart of a Father: How You Can Become a Dad of Destiny
- Author: Canfield PH.D., Ken
- Publisher: Northfield Publishing
- Publication Date: 2006
- ISBN: 9781575674704
KEN R. CANFIELD, Ph.D. (B.A., Friends University; M.C.S., University of British Columbia; Ph.D., Kansas State University) is founder of the National Center for Fathering, and served as NCF's president and CEO from 1990 through 2005. In January 2008, he accepted an appointment as Executive Director of the Boone Center for the Family at Pepperdine University. He is the author of The Heart of a Father and numerous other books including the award-winning 7 Secrets of Effective Fathers. Ken and his wife, Dee, have been married over 30 years and have five children and three grandchildren.