11 Best Fatherhood, Family & Relationships Books
Fatherhood, Family & Relationships is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Fatherhood, Family & Relationships audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 11 Fatherhood, Family & Relationships audiobooks below.
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The Collapse of Parenting
- By: Leonard Sax
- Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.27(3315 ratings)
4.27(3315 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn The Collapse of Parenting, Leonard Sax, an acclaimed expert on parenting and childhood development, identifies a key problem plaguing American children, especially relative to other countries: the dramatic decline in young people’sIn The Collapse of Parenting, Leonard Sax, an acclaimed expert on parenting and childhood development, identifies a key problem plaguing American children, especially relative to other countries: the dramatic decline in young people’s achievement and psychological health. The root of this problem, Sax contends, lies in the transfer of authority from parents to their children, a shift that has been occurring over the last fifty years and is now impossible to ignore. Sax pinpoints the effects of this shift, arguing that the rising levels of obesity, depression, and anxiety among young people–as well as their parents’ widespread dependence on psychiatric medications to fix such problems–can all be traced back to a corresponding decline in adult authority.
Sax argues that a general decline in respect for elders has had particularly severe consequences for the relationship between parents and their children. The result is parents are afraid of seeming too dictatorial and end up abdicating their authority entirely rather than taking a stand with their own children. If kids refuse to eat anything green and demand pizza instead, parents give in, inadvertently raising children who expect to eat sweets and junk food and are thus more likely to become obese. If children demand and receive the latest smartphones, tablets, and other gadgets, and are then allowed to spend the bulk of their waking hours texting with friends and accessing any website they want, they become increasingly reliant on peers and the media for guidance on how to live, rather than their parents. And if they won’t sit still in class or listen to adults–parents or teachers–they’re often prescribed medication, a quick fix that doesn’t help them learn self-control. In short, according to Sax, parents have failed to teach their children good habits, leaving children with no clear sense of the distinction between right and wrong.
But Sax insists there is hope. To start with, parents need to regain a central place in the lives of their young children, displacing same-age peers who can’t provide the same kind of guidance and stability. Parents also need to learn that they can’t be a best friend and a parent at the same time. They’ll make their children’s lives easier if they focus not on pleasing their kids, but instead on giving them the tools they need to lead happy, healthy lives.
Drawing on over twenty-five years of experience as a family psychologist and hundreds of interviews with children, parents, and teachers in the United States and throughout the world, Sax makes a convincing case that if we are to help our children avoid the pitfalls of an increasingly complicated world, we must reassert authority as parents.
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Once Upon a Farm
- By: Rory Feek
- Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: June 19, 2018
- Language: English
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4.27(629 ratings)
4.27(629 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDNational Bestseller Sometimes it’s not only what we plant but where we’re planted. Now raising their four-year-old daughter, Indiana, alone, after Joey’s passing, Rory Feek digs deeper into the soil of his life and the unusualNational Bestseller
Sometimes it’s not only what we plant but where we’re planted.
Now raising their four-year-old daughter, Indiana, alone, after Joey’s passing, Rory Feek digs deeper into the soil of his life and the unusual choices he and his wife, Joey, made together and the ones he’s making now to lead his family into the future. 
When Rory Feek and his older daughters moved into a run-down farmhouse almost twenty years ago, he had no idea of the almost fairy-tale love story that was going to unfold on that small piece of Tennessee land . . . and the lessons he and his family would learn along the way.
Now two years after Joey’s passing, as Rory takes their four-year-old daughter Indiana’s hand and walks forward into an unknown future, he takes readers on his incredible journey from heartbreak to hope and, ultimately, the kind of healing that comes only through faith.
A raw and vulnerable look deeper into Rory’s heart, Once Upon a Farm is filled with powerful stories of love, life, and hope and the insights that one extraordinary, ordinary man in bib overalls has gleamed along the way.
As opposed to homesteading, this is instead a book on lifesteading as Rory learns to cultivate faith, love, and fatherhood on a small farm while doing everything, at times, but farming. With frequent stories of his and Joey’s years together, and how those guide his life today, Rory unpacks just what it means to be open to new experiences.
“This isn’t a how-to book; it’s more of a how we, or more accurately, how He, God, planted us on a few acres of land and grew something bigger than Joey or I could have ever imagined.”
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What Happened to My Little Girl?
- By: Nancy N. Rue
- Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: April 05, 2011
- Language: English
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3.95(13 ratings)
3.95(13 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDDads, finally a guide to your tween daughter! This companion book to the FaithGirlz novels, devotionals, and Bibles, focuses on four tween issues: appearance, body and mood changes, girl politics, and authenticity. Let tween expert Nancy Rue, andDads, finally a guide to your tween daughter! This companion book to the FaithGirlz novels, devotionals, and Bibles, focuses on four tween issues: appearance, body and mood changes, girl politics, and authenticity.
Let tween expert Nancy Rue, and her husband, Jim, guide you in helping your daughter live as a girl-child rather than a mini-teenager.
- Empower her in spiritually sound behaviors as the rate of aggression rises among tween females.
- Show your daughter how to not only avoid but take a stand on the twisted parts of her culture such as peer abuse, shallow consumerism, and an unrealistic sense of entitlement.
- Give her alternatives to the toxic media, and encourage her to become part of something bigger than herself through charitable, God-centered activities.
- Learn to model the growth of a deep, personal connection with God, which makes all of the above not only possible, but probable.
In the midst of a world saturated with poisonous role models, it is possible to raise your daughter to be a respectful, confident, God-centered, young woman.
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Parent Up
- By: Kelly Rippon
- Narrator: Kelly Rippon
- Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.95(58 ratings)
3.95(58 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDRaise your kids through positive parenting, understanding, and leadership … and be the ultimate influencer in their lives. How do you raise a champion? After her son Adam Rippon medaled in the 2018 Olympic Games, single mom Kelly Rippon foundRaise your kids through positive parenting, understanding, and leadership … and be the ultimate influencer in their lives.
How do you raise a champion? After her son Adam Rippon medaled in the 2018 Olympic Games, single mom Kelly Rippon found herself being asked this question all the time. Kelly had six children–what did she do to inspire them to their achievements and how did she raise confident, self-driven, emotionally intelligent children? Kelly realized that her unique parenting ideas shared the same leadership influence model she presented to audiences across the country as a motivational and professional development speaker.
Her philosophy is simple: a parent has the greatest opportunity to be the most significant influence in a child’s life. Kelly shares ten key types of influence–from Optimism to Accountability–that will inspire your kids and build your own sense of purpose and self-worth. Illustrating her influencer philosophy with relatable anecdotes from her own life and raising gifted children, Kelly invites you into your own journey of self-discovery in one of the best books on parenting and child development. No matter the challenges, you can improve your life and empower your children when you Parent Up!
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Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (So They Can Look Up Your Skirt)
- By: Philip Van Munching
- Narrator: Philip Van Munching
- Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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3.88(278 ratings)
3.88(278 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.95 USDLife can be pretty tricky when you’re a teenage girl. New things matter: Clothes. Parties. Boys. Suddenly being liked and being popular don’t mean the same thing. Your parents get completely bizarre when the subject of dating comes up. ALife can be pretty tricky when you’re a teenage girl. New things matter: Clothes. Parties. Boys. Suddenly being liked and being popular don’t mean the same thing. Your parents get completely bizarre when the subject of dating comes up. A friend you’ve had forever stabs you in the back for no good reason. Everybody you know seems to feel free to comment on your constantly changing body. Drugs and alcohol go from being what you see “bad” kids doing on television shows to what you see your friends doing when no adults are around. How are you supposed to deal?
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Since life doesn’t come with a set of instructions, it helps to turn to people who have been through the stuff that you’re facing. Even parents can help. (Really!) In Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (so they can look up your skirt), former teenage boy — and current dad of two daughters — Philip Van Munching helps guide you through some of life’s most confusing topics. From Beauty to Grief, from Sex to Fate, Van Munching covers the things you most want to know about and, in his wise, warm, and funny way, offers advice on how you can become the young woman you most want to be. -
Sky Lantern
- By: Matt Mikalatos
- Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 4 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.77(278 ratings)
3.77(278 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDA compassionate memoir about a father’s relationship with his children, the healing power of a small act of kindness, and the proof that love is everlasting.Love you, Dad. Miss you so much. Steph. A brokenhearted daughter scribbled those wordsA compassionate memoir about a father’s relationship with his children, the healing power of a small act of kindness, and the proof that love is everlasting.
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Love you, Dad. Miss you so much. Steph.
A brokenhearted daughter scribbled those words on a sky lantern before sending it off to her father in heaven who had passed away. Halfway across the country, Steph’s lantern landed in Matt Mikalatos’s yard.
As a father of three daughters, Matt could not let that heart-wrenching note unanswered, so he posted an open letter to her on his blog, which went viral overnight. Little did he know how that small act of kindness would lead him to the real Steph and change his family’s life in remarkable ways.
A poignant and lyrical account of the beauty and wonder found in domestic life, Sky Lantern shows how the miraculous events that followed Matt finding the sky lantern in his yard–and the widespread and lasting impact his letter had–prove that the bond between a parent and their child can last forever. -
Dadding It!
- By: Rob Kemp
- Narrator: Kyle Tait
- Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 17, 2020
- Language: English
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3.67(6 ratings)
3.67(6 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDKids don’t come with an instruction manual (not that most men would read one if they did). Instead they’re shaped by life-forming milestones and learn-as-they-go mistakes, which you, as modern, responsible fathers, must be there to helpKids don’t come with an instruction manual (not that most men would read one if they did). Instead they’re shaped by life-forming milestones and learn-as-they-go mistakes, which you, as modern, responsible fathers, must be there to help them deal with, solve, or at least advise upon pretty much from their birth until you’ve drawn your last breath. This book will give you a head’s up on all the defining moments you are guaranteed to experience as a parent. It’ll warn you when your life is going to take a change of course and how your child is going to influence the choices you make, and it’ll give you some practical, knowing, sanity-saving methods of dealing with them. Each moment is headlined with a common scenario that dads have encountered down through generations–but that will still come as a shock to you for the first time. And for every milestone moment, landmark action, or parenting task to perform, there’s sound advice and strategic solutions to help you cope and even discover the purported joys of parenthood…
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Rookie Dad
- By: David Jacobsen
- Length: 3 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: December 15, 2009
- Language: English
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3.55(34 ratings)
3.55(34 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.99 USDWhen I found out my wife, Christine, was pregnant, I had no idea what I was thinking or feeling, and no clue what I should be thinking or feeling. Christine had daily heart-to-hearts with her girlfriends and a stack of parenting books by her bed. IWhen I found out my wife, Christine, was pregnant, I had no idea what I was thinking or feeling, and no clue what I should be thinking or feeling. Christine had daily heart-to-hearts with her girlfriends and a stack of parenting books by her bed. I had lots of questions with no answers. So I started writing. It was either that, or try to ignore the whole thing – a choice that became increasingly difficult as Christine’s belly became increasingly swollen.Rookie Dad is the story of a young husband and father learning how to pay attention to his family’s changing size and shape. It’s a story filled with hard questions, with laughter and tears, and with the unexpected joy of first-time fatherhood. It’s my story – the story of how I became a dad.
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Ten Conversations You Must Have with Your Son
- By: Tim Hawkes
- Narrator: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.52(52 ratings)
3.52(52 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDMaking time to talk with your son is one thing; knowing what to talk about is another. Every parent of a teenage boy knows there are certain conversations they must have with their son, but they often put them off–or worse, don’t haveMaking time to talk with your son is one thing; knowing what to talk about is another.
Every parent of a teenage boy knows there are certain conversations they must have with their son, but they often put them off–or worse, don’t have them at all–because they simply don’t know where to start. Written by Dr. Tim Hawkes, one of Australia’s top educators, Ten Conversations You Must Have with Your Son offers a practical, accessible, and invaluable way to get these discussions started.
Dr. Hawkes provides parents with the essential information they need to negotiate their way through what can often be very difficult territory about the why, what, and how of ten key topics: love, identity, values, leadership, achievement, sex, money, health, living together, and resilience. Each topic has its own chapter and offers ideas about different ways for parents to share their own experiences and knowledge with their boys.
Having been a headmaster for twenty-five years and an internationally recognized expert in the field of raising and educating boys, Dr. Hawkes is in a unique position to know what goes on inside the minds of teenage boys. He understands what they need to know to best prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities, challenges, and demands that life will make on them.
Ten Conversations You Must Have with Your Son is a great guide for anyone needing help in preparing a son for adulthood.
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How I Taught My Daughter to Fight
- By: Brad Meltzer
- Narrator: Brad Meltzer
- Length: 13 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 18, 2017
- Language: English
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2.86(7 ratings)
2.86(7 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.001.98 USDHere’s the true story of Brad, his daughter, and the book that was born when she entered his life. -
Nunca mas su nombre (Nameless)
- By: Joel Flores
- Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: July 13, 2021
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDPocas relaciones son tan intensas y a la vez pueden llegar a ser tan conflictivas como las que se establecen entre padres e hijos. ?Que sucede si los hijos son distintos y, aunque se esfuercen, no consiguen encajar en el molde que trazaron paraPocas relaciones son tan intensas y a la vez pueden llegar a ser tan conflictivas como las que se establecen entre padres e hijos. ?Que sucede si los hijos son distintos y, aunque se esfuercen, no consiguen encajar en el molde que trazaron para ellos? ?Que, cuando la imagen paterna es en todo negativa y el hijo considera el rechazo un deber moral? Sin remedio, se produce un encontronazo, y la vida familiar del hijo se convierte en un infierno del que hay que huir a como de lugar. Joel Flores explora los laberintos emocionales del protagonista quien, recien instal
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