Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8742
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Atria Books/Beyond Words
Manufacturer: Atria Books/Beyond Words
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 112
Printing Date: April 01, 1998
Publishing house: Atria Books/Beyond Words
Sale Popularity Level: 829763
Studio: Atria Books/Beyond Words
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-- Gives children a tool for discovering who their fathers really are
This is a little book that asks big questions: some serious, some playful, some risky. Each is posed with the idea of opening, reopening, rejuvenating, or bringing closure to the primary but often overlooked relationship of Fathers and children. Each prompts reflection and/or discussion: of the father's relationship to the mother, what the father's relationship was like with his father, how the father began his career, how he felt and feels about his children, what his dreams were as a young man.
Questions for My Dad provides a blueprint for uncovering the full dimensions of the man who is also a father.
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The questions in this book allow the reader to muse on their own relationships with their parents and others close to them, and hopefully to realise how important it is to make time to communicate within families. Buy it to read, think and keep it visible on your bookshelf as a reminder of what is important and that there is always time to talk to those close to you, however busy you think you are.
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At very first glance I thought this was just another "quick-fix" book offering [bad] platitudes about the quest to reveal the mythical father-figure.
I started to leaf through it and three days later I'm still excited and troubled by what "Questions" has revealed to me.
The questions are, quite simply, stunning in their originality and form. There's stuff here I wouldn't have thought of asking in a million years.
And then there's the narrative that is sprinkled throughout the text; a dark and troubled trans-America motorcycle trip during which the author has an eerie insight into the importance that his father has played in his life. Too late, of course. Staniforth returns to England just in time to watch his Dad die, and so begins the internal intellectual voyage of discovery about his father.
Read it, use it, buy it for a father or a child. This book can save families.
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A wonderful book to learn more about your father and yourself.
It's also a fantastic conversation maker. Don't miss out on
this jewel of a book.
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This book asks both hard and easy questions. It gives the reader a chance to get to know the man with the utmost depth. Some of the questions are a little deep, but I encourage the reader to ask them all. Some of the questions may be superficial, but you might get some surprising answers. Good book. Great starting point for getting to know the man behind your dad.
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Great book for learning about yourself and passing along your feelings, foibles and future wishes to your children. Works well for those that had a great relationship with their own father and want to continue the tradition; works even better for those who weren't close to their own father and want to make the most out of that special relationship with their own children.
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