It was February 5, 2003, and the wife was screaming viciously. I was in danger; gauze flying, tubes and needles and nurses everywhere. It wasn’t long before I realized that I was completely unprepared for the repercussions of what I had just witnessed: my baby girl was born.

She was going to be my first of two more similar events, all with the same danger but it wasn’t from the wife or the nurses. It was the little girl, she stole my heart. I thought being a dad would be easy. By 2003 I had acquired over 35 years of experience being a son, so I figured that I knew how it should be done. Like you, I distinctly remember in my teenage years knowing exactly what my parents were doing wrong.

It was a couple of years later that I started repeating some of the traditional parenting phrases and I knew I was in trouble. I became proactive very quickly. I needed goals. Not only did I define my goals, I created a mission statement and then a strategy. I decided to put these items down on paper and before I knew it, this book was created. You will find my efforts to be concise, entertaining stories of proactive parenting ideas embedded with nuggets of wisdom.

I hope you enjoy reading about how I am intentional in my instruction, engaged in my children’s lives, and interactive in their play; about my efforts to become a great dad, The Red Fox Father.

David is a Child of a Broken Home, a title he did not earn and never wanted. Caught in the crossfire of his parent’s divorce David decided that things would be different for his children but he quickly found himself untrained, unprepared, and unskilled to be what he felt he should be for his children. After losing his career David found the job that was most important to him, Fatherhood. This is when he began his quest to be the best father ever, or what he calls; The Red Fox Father.

It was February 5, 2003, and the wife was screaming viciously. I was in danger; gauze flying, tubes and needles and nurses everywhere. It wasn’t long before I realized that I was completely unprepared for the repercussions of what I had just witnessed: my baby girl was born.

She was going to be my first of two more similar events, all with the same danger but it wasn’t from the wife or the nurses. It was the little girl, she stole my heart. I thought being a dad would be easy. By 2003 I had acquired over 35 years of experience being a son, so I figured that I knew how it should be done. Like you, I distinctly remember in my teenage years knowing exactly what my parents were doing wrong.

It was a couple of years later that I started repeating some of the traditional parenting phrases and I knew I was in trouble. I became proactive very quickly. I needed goals. Not only did I define my goals, I created a mission statement and then a strategy. I decided to put these items down on paper and before I knew it, this book was created. You will find my efforts to be concise, entertaining stories of proactive parenting ideas embedded with nuggets of wisdom.

I hope you enjoy reading about how I am intentional in my instruction, engaged in my children’s lives, and interactive in their play; about my efforts to become a great dad, The Red Fox Father.

David is a Child of a Broken Home, a title he did not earn and never wanted. Caught in the crossfire of his parent’s divorce David decided that things would be different for his children but he quickly found himself untrained, unprepared, and unskilled to be what he felt he should be for his children. After losing his career David found the job that was most important to him, Fatherhood. This is when he began his quest to be the best father ever, or what he calls; The Red Fox Father.

Do you ever feel like you spend most of your life running in circles just trying to keep up with your family’s daily activities? Do you wish that you had more time to spend with your family or with friends? You are not alone. At a time when stress is at an all-time high and free time is at an all-time low, most of us wonder how in the world we’ll ever be able to get off the constantly moving wheel of life. The secret is realizing that we’re all in the same boat, and the life preserver we all need is an active community. We just need to find out how to start. Because of the changes in technology, the way we interact with each other has drastically changed. We are more connected than ever, but we have also created barriers in how people interact with each other. We have forgotten how to exist within a community. In Growing CommUNITY, author Collette Campbell shares tips and strategies for doing more with less by working together. She takes the guesswork out of meal planning, budgeting, vacations, childcare, and so much more. She provides practical ways to create a strong, supportive community. Most importantly, Campbell offers a step-by-step guide to making your life easier by working alongside your friends and growing your community.

Collette Campbell is a busy mom to three children and has been happily married to her college sweetheart, Dan, for fifteen years. She and Dan have made their home in Tallahassee since graduating from Florida State University in the mid 1990s and have enjoyed raising their family there.

Do you ever feel like you spend most of your life running in circles just trying to keep up with your family’s daily activities? Do you wish that you had more time to spend with your family or with friends? You are not alone. At a time when stress is at an all-time high and free time is at an all-time low, most of us wonder how in the world we’ll ever be able to get off the constantly moving wheel of life. The secret is realizing that we’re all in the same boat, and the life preserver we all need is an active community. We just need to find out how to start. Because of the changes in technology, the way we interact with each other has drastically changed. We are more connected than ever, but we have also created barriers in how people interact with each other. We have forgotten how to exist within a community. In Growing CommUNITY, author Collette Campbell shares tips and strategies for doing more with less by working together. She takes the guesswork out of meal planning, budgeting, vacations, childcare, and so much more. She provides practical ways to create a strong, supportive community. Most importantly, Campbell offers a step-by-step guide to making your life easier by working alongside your friends and growing your community.

Collette Campbell is a busy mom to three children and has been happily married to her college sweetheart, Dan, for fifteen years. She and Dan have made their home in Tallahassee since graduating from Florida State University in the mid 1990s and have enjoyed raising their family there.

God is the perfect father, and you can improve your parenting style by looking to Him. He sets the example for how to be a provider, protector, teacher, and disciplinarian.

This guidebook to Christian parenting explores the attributes of God a parent should try to emulate. It also brings to light four ways that Jesus grew in Luke 2:52, developing intellectually, physically, spiritually, and socially. As a parent, you can help your children follow in their savior’s footsteps.

Just as the Lord disciplines those He loves, parents must discipline their children. Heaven on Earth carefully describes biblical principles to help parents provide the environment children need. It offers proper and healthy techniques to aid parents in leading children to honor and respect not only their parents but ultimately the Lord. What’s more, it draws a line between appropriate and abusive actions to control children’s behavior. Parents can proactively develop a disciplinary plan to guard against crossing these boundaries.

Parents face many challenges to lead and guide the family in godly ways, and many struggle with the feelings of anger and failure. Find encouragement and strength through the power of God’s Word and the strength of the Holy Spirit, and get practical help in facing rebellious and wayward children.

You can be inspired to overcome any obstacle, and raise your children for the glory of God.

God is the perfect father, and you can improve your parenting style by looking to Him. He sets the example for how to be a provider, protector, teacher, and disciplinarian.

This guidebook to Christian parenting explores the attributes of God a parent should try to emulate. It also brings to light four ways that Jesus grew in Luke 2:52, developing intellectually, physically, spiritually, and socially. As a parent, you can help your children follow in their savior’s footsteps.

Just as the Lord disciplines those He loves, parents must discipline their children. Heaven on Earth carefully describes biblical principles to help parents provide the environment children need. It offers proper and healthy techniques to aid parents in leading children to honor and respect not only their parents but ultimately the Lord. What’s more, it draws a line between appropriate and abusive actions to control children’s behavior. Parents can proactively develop a disciplinary plan to guard against crossing these boundaries.

Parents face many challenges to lead and guide the family in godly ways, and many struggle with the feelings of anger and failure. Find encouragement and strength through the power of God’s Word and the strength of the Holy Spirit, and get practical help in facing rebellious and wayward children.

You can be inspired to overcome any obstacle, and raise your children for the glory of God.

I urge everyone who wants to understand just how wonderful marriage CAN BE to read and re-read this book. But I also urge psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, pastors, missionaries and lay counselors to study it as well. I urge them because it not only covers a host of important aspects of marriage that include practical tips but also deep spiritual and emotional concepts—even unconscious personality dynamics and how we all, to one extent or another, deceive ourselves in many ways that are detrimental to our marriages. Paul Meier, MD Founder of the national chain of Meier Clinics

You’ll never by happy in your marriage if you don’t deal with issues head on, such as communication, conflict resolution, and intimacy. J.A. Alexandre, a pastor and relationship expert, helps you build and maintain a loving relationship with your spouse in this guidebook to marital bliss. You’ll learn how to

rekindle the flame of love that brought you together; avoid choices and situations that could endanger your marriage; get the maximum amount of enjoyment in being with your partner; and recognize needs that aren’t being met (including your own).

By revealing results from surveys he’s conducted during marital retreats, the author shares specific behaviors that can cause trouble in a marriage. More importantly, he provides ideas and guidance on how to overcome problems.

Regardless if you are contemplating marriage, already married, or seeking to help couples, you’ll understand that marital happiness is a choice by seeking to understand the Word of God while confronting the challenges of everyday life.

J.A. Alexandre is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and George Fox University. He has counseled hundreds of couples and has conducted annual marital retreats for twenty-three years in Massachusetts, Florida, New Jersey, Connecticut, and New York. He is the founder and senior pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Congregation in Boston, Massachusetts, where he also practices psychology.

Written to men from the perspective of a divorced man, Divorced … Now What? shares author Lynn A. Blackwood’s heartfelt and honest story of his own divorce and the lessons he learned during the journey—from dealing with attorneys and nurturing his three children.

Against the backdrop of the teachings of the Bible, Divorced … Now What? provides a firsthand look at the heartache of divorce and its repercussions. Revealing insights, disappointments, and varying emotions, Blackwood explores the reality of the separation of families and relationships—how to deal with gossip in divorce’s aftermath, how to cope with friends and family who take sides, and how to obtain a fresh start, move forward, and facilitate healing through counseling.

Through a discussion of seventy words that begin with the letter “D,” Divorced … Now What? communicates the importance of healing after a break up and letting God address your heart and soul to ensure stronger future relationships.

“There are many different ways to teach on the various perspectives of relationships, all in an attempt to reach the same common outcome. Divorced … Now What? provides a perspective that lends itself to an easy read and more importantly a comprehension that will open a man’s mind to be challenged and provoke thought in wanting to live life in a more qualitative way.” —Mr. Kim Carpenter Ph.D., bestselling author of The Vow

Lois and Tim had been married almost twenty-five years and were the parents of three teenagers. In a single moment, a fatal accident altered the course of Lois’s life and changed her family forever. In the face of intense pain, God used a variety of people and circumstances to reveal His presence and provisions for Lois and her family. In her memoir, A Garment of Praise: A Story of Blessings in the Midst of Grief, Lois chronicles her journey of grief during her first year as a widow. She shares how she and her family experienced God’s amazing, overwhelming, lavish love and abundant blessings. Within days of her husband’s death, Lois began to see ways God had prepared her family for life without Tim. A Garment of Praise: A Story of Blessings in the Midst of Grief presents Lois’s written record of how God provided care for Lois and brought her and her family unexpected blessings during a time of tragedy.

Written to men from the perspective of a divorced man, Divorced … Now What? shares author Lynn A. Blackwood’s heartfelt and honest story of his own divorce and the lessons he learned during the journey—from dealing with attorneys and nurturing his three children.

Against the backdrop of the teachings of the Bible, Divorced … Now What? provides a firsthand look at the heartache of divorce and its repercussions. Revealing insights, disappointments, and varying emotions, Blackwood explores the reality of the separation of families and relationships—how to deal with gossip in divorce’s aftermath, how to cope with friends and family who take sides, and how to obtain a fresh start, move forward, and facilitate healing through counseling.

Through a discussion of seventy words that begin with the letter “D,” Divorced … Now What? communicates the importance of healing after a break up and letting God address your heart and soul to ensure stronger future relationships.

“There are many different ways to teach on the various perspectives of relationships, all in an attempt to reach the same common outcome. Divorced … Now What? provides a perspective that lends itself to an easy read and more importantly a comprehension that will open a man’s mind to be challenged and provoke thought in wanting to live life in a more qualitative way.” —Mr. Kim Carpenter Ph.D., bestselling author of The Vow

Written to men from the perspective of a divorced man, Divorced … Now What? shares author Lynn A. Blackwood’s heartfelt and honest story of his own divorce and the lessons he learned during the journey—from dealing with attorneys and nurturing his three children.

Against the backdrop of the teachings of the Bible, Divorced … Now What? provides a firsthand look at the heartache of divorce and its repercussions. Revealing insights, disappointments, and varying emotions, Blackwood explores the reality of the separation of families and relationships—how to deal with gossip in divorce’s aftermath, how to cope with friends and family who take sides, and how to obtain a fresh start, move forward, and facilitate healing through counseling.

Through a discussion of seventy words that begin with the letter “D,” Divorced … Now What? communicates the importance of healing after a break up and letting God address your heart and soul to ensure stronger future relationships.

“There are many different ways to teach on the various perspectives of relationships, all in an attempt to reach the same common outcome. Divorced … Now What? provides a perspective that lends itself to an easy read and more importantly a comprehension that will open a man’s mind to be challenged and provoke thought in wanting to live life in a more qualitative way.” —Mr. Kim Carpenter Ph.D., bestselling author of The Vow

Lois and Tim had been married almost twenty-five years and were the parents of three teenagers. In a single moment, a fatal accident altered the course of Lois’s life and changed her family forever. In the face of intense pain, God used a variety of people and circumstances to reveal His presence and provisions for Lois and her family. In her memoir, A Garment of Praise: A Story of Blessings in the Midst of Grief, Lois chronicles her journey of grief during her first year as a widow. She shares how she and her family experienced God’s amazing, overwhelming, lavish love and abundant blessings. Within days of her husband’s death, Lois began to see ways God had prepared her family for life without Tim. A Garment of Praise: A Story of Blessings in the Midst of Grief presents Lois’s written record of how God provided care for Lois and brought her and her family unexpected blessings during a time of tragedy.

Lois and Tim had been married almost twenty-five years and were the parents of three teenagers. In a single moment, a fatal accident altered the course of Lois’s life and changed her family forever. In the face of intense pain, God used a variety of people and circumstances to reveal His presence and provisions for Lois and her family. In her memoir, A Garment of Praise: A Story of Blessings in the Midst of Grief, Lois chronicles her journey of grief during her first year as a widow. She shares how she and her family experienced God’s amazing, overwhelming, lavish love and abundant blessings. Within days of her husband’s death, Lois began to see ways God had prepared her family for life without Tim. A Garment of Praise: A Story of Blessings in the Midst of Grief presents Lois’s written record of how God provided care for Lois and brought her and her family unexpected blessings during a time of tragedy.

Who Cried for the Little Boy? is the brutally honest chronicle of Ellen Huntington’s six-year journey to change the life of a troubled teen named Josh. From her initial excitement as she envisions being the instrument of change in a young life, through all the highs and lows, Ellen openly shares their hopes, setbacks, and discouragement. Ellen Huntington is a happily married mother of two when seventeen-year-old Josh enters her life. When she learns of the mistreatment that Josh suffered as a child, Ellen is appalled; she throws herself into making a difference in his life and the lives of the other students at the alternative school he attends. As Ellen addresses Josh’s past issues of abandonment, abuse, and dysfunction, she digs deep into her faith to survive in an unfamiliar world. She struggles to understand God’s plan as she discovers Josh’s needs. Josh moves into her home, and she and her husband Grant become Mom and Dad to the boy in addition to their own two sons. While other families may have collapsed due to the stress and strain that Josh’s issues and presence placed on the family structure, Ellen’s family held strong. After all the heart-wrenching struggles Ellen and Josh endure, will Ellen’s unconditional love be enough to help Josh find and sustain his new life, or will he forfeit it all?

As a parent, you do everything you can to prepare your children for adulthood. You hope they will remember your words, but you wish you had something tangible to give them as a reference guide. If you are a single parent, you may have special concerns about passing along your experiences to your children.

In Letters to My Sons, single parent DJ Alexander shares how he helped prepare his sons for life as adults. Most of us have experienced several land mines—“life explosions” that could have been avoided had we known what to look out for and how to make sure our expectations are realistic. Alexander helps his sons learn to navigate through such issues as relationships, creation, sin, the Garden of Eden, career, finances, and raising children. Each letter includes Bible reading recommendations that tie into its topics.

Letters to My Sons provides guidelines on how to prepare children, especially sons, for life after their teenage years. Perhaps the most important guideline is that one’s adult pathway can be found in the Word of God. Letter to My Sons can point you toward passages that speak to adult life.