Stepping into Adulthood

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Summary: A powerful tool for parents!
Review: "Stepping into adulthood" is a blessing and a very helpful instrument for parents who want to provide a different transition to their children from adolescence to adulthood. In our society today, parents have not spent time with their children. This can be dangerous and frustrating for a young person. Reading and performing the lessons contained in this book, parents will be able to have in mind how is important paying attention to their children's lives, and help them in their problems by being a friend and a counselor to them. Teenagers need somebody to look up to and to count on in order to pass this important phase of their lives. This book provides a powerful tool to parents deal with their children by the named "rite of passage" which will be worthwhile for the rest of their lives. Parents: get this book! Your children will be thankful!

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Summary: "Daddy, I want to be a man!"
Review: "Dad, am I gonna have a Bar Mitzvah?" My then eight year old son Lance asked, while attending the ceremony of my nephew. "I don't know son, why?" "Because daddy, I want to be a man!" After Lance spoke these words to me, it sent me on a nearly ten year journey of discovery. I was determined to find out what it meant to be a Godly father and parent to my son. As a Messianic Jew, I could not understand why there was no Bar-Mitzvah type of ceremony, or any form of a "rite of passage" service in Christianity. After traveling and researching in more than 40 countries around the world, I found that Christianity was one of the only "religions" in the world today, that did nothing to recognize their children, as they were Stepping Into Adulthood.

In our society today, our children long to take the mantle of adulthood upon their shoulders, but usually without an understanding of the responsibilities that accompany it. My book explores the challenges of our society and the difficulties our children face. It is my sincere hope and desire, that you gain a greater insight to your responsibility in leading, guiding, directing, and training your child, as you see him or her transition from childhood to adolescence and into adulthood. It is also my prayer, that this book will help you with your desire to guide your child's steps in becoming all the man or woman of God that He created them to be.

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Summary: This book pays eternal dividends
Review: "Stepping into Adulthood" encourages every family to enjoy the journey of being a parent and to fulfilling the command "...to bringing up your children in the training and admonition of the Lord." Eph. 6:4.

I have seen firsthand how fathers have found life skills though this book, and are now developing lasting relationship with their teenager children.

This book pays eternal dividends.

Yours in His service

Pastor Chas Gullo - SENIOR PASTOR of SUNCOAST CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTRE QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA

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Summary: A powerful tool for parents!
Review: "Stepping into adulthood" is a blessing and a very helpful instrument for parents who want to provide a different transition to their children from adolescence to adulthood. In our society today, parents have not spent time with their children. This can be dangerous and frustrating for a young person. Reading and performing the lessons contained in this book, parents will be able to have in mind how is important paying attention to their children's lives, and help them in their problems by being a friend and a counselor to them. Teenagers need somebody to look up to and to count on in order to pass this important phase of their lives. This book provides a powerful tool to parents deal with their children by the named "rite of passage" which will be worthwhile for the rest of their lives. Parents: get this book! Your children will be thankful!

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Summary: The "How To" book you've been looking for.
Review: A generation of young people is looking for purpose and endorsement. A generation of parents stands in confusion as the gap between them and their children widens.

Jeff Brodsky, through personal experience, shows how to develop relationships with our children and prepare them for adulthood. What better way to reinforce and give purpose than to commemorate the fact that your sons and daughters have begun to show signs of maturity - thus reaffirming who they are and commissioning them for the rest of their lives. A handbook for parents.

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Summary: A great book to help you bless your children
Review: I have read the book, "Stepping into Adulthood" by Jeff Brodsky and released quite a bit of the teaching into my church. The aspects that have been particularly helpful have been the parts that deal with a child's identity and destiny. These chapters answer the questions of "Why am I here?; Where am I going?; What is my purpose?"

Also of importance is the chapter on the Rite of Passage into adulthood. This provides a spiritual as well as a practical reason to celebrate Adulthood. The book also gives helpful encouragement and tools to parents to accept the responsibilities of their role in releasing blessing upon their children.

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Summary: This book is THE antidote to youth violence!
Review: Jeff Brodsky has brought forth out of his inmost being the very essence and heart of a father. Stepping Into Adulthood explores the fragile, yet incalculably vital connection between fathers and their children. This link, this bond between generations, is staggering in its effect on each one of us, and when it is absent or severed, the damage to our entire personhood is profound.

Jeff has called us back to some very ancient and foundational roots which speak to the very core of our perception of self-worth, and value. Without the affirmation and connection to our fathers, we suffer immeasurably, and every one of our relationships suffer. I cannot too highly recommend this book and the message it carries!

Through my friendship with Jeff over the years, I have seen the effect of this teaching in my own family. Jeff presided over the "Stepping Into Adulthood" ceremonies that we provided for my own teenage son and daughter. Their lives have never wavered from the paths of righteousness, and we have not had to endure the all-too-typical rebellion that so many parents have suffered through. My children know that they are part of a continuum of relationship that goes back centuries, and have taken their place as responsible members of our family and community.

I cannot help but think about how this book, had it found it's way into the homes of the two now-devastated families of the Columbine killers, might have changed the course of these young men's lives, and saved us all from the horror and suffering we have endured here in Littleton. As the presiding pastor at the funeral of slain martyr Rachel Joy Scott, who was murdered at Columbine last year, my heart breaks for this generation of youth. BUY THIS BOOK, and purchase copies to give away to everyone you know who have teens or pre-teens. It will change your family, and is without question the most potent "Vaccination" against future Columbine catastrophes available in print today!

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Summary: This book is THE antidote to youth violence!
Review: Jeff Brodsky has brought forth out of his inmost being the very essence and heart of a father. Stepping Into Adulthood explores the fragile, yet incalculably vital connection between fathers and their children. This link, this bond between generations, is staggering in its effect on each one of us, and when it is absent or severed, the damage to our entire personhood is profound.

Jeff has called us back to some very ancient and foundational roots which speak to the very core of our perception of self-worth, and value. Without the affirmation and connection to our fathers, we suffer immeasurably, and every one of our relationships suffer. I cannot too highly recommend this book and the message it carries!

Through my friendship with Jeff over the years, I have seen the effect of this teaching in my own family. Jeff presided over the "Stepping Into Adulthood" ceremonies that we provided for my own teenage son and daughter. Their lives have never wavered from the paths of righteousness, and we have not had to endure the all-too-typical rebellion that so many parents have suffered through. My children know that they are part of a continuum of relationship that goes back centuries, and have taken their place as responsible members of our family and community.

I cannot help but think about how this book, had it found it's way into the homes of the two now-devastated families of the Columbine killers, might have changed the course of these young men's lives, and saved us all from the horror and suffering we have endured here in Littleton. As the presiding pastor at the funeral of slain martyr Rachel Joy Scott, who was murdered at Columbine last year, my heart breaks for this generation of youth. BUY THIS BOOK, and purchase copies to give away to everyone you know who have teens or pre-teens. It will change your family, and is without question the most potent "Vaccination" against future Columbine catastrophes available in print today!

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Summary: The best pathway into manhood
Review: The process of a boy growing into a godly man is not only unclear, its fraught with huge gaps as a result of our permissive and money centred culture.

There needs to be a tangible definition of what a man is using a model that is true ie Jesus himself. Then there needs to be a process in which we can put into effect from the preschool years to the teenage years in order to achieve the definition established.

Jeff Brodsky has enlightened many issues involved in this process and provided great insights. If you are serious about raising your son God's way, read this book and others to provide a good base of knowledge and Godly wisdom.

The concepts involved are very radical in the face of our materialistic and fast lane culture. These concepts are in the heart of God.