Dear Dad/If I Could Tell You Anything

By Doug Webster

After interviewing over 1,000 teenagers, Doug Webster gleaned the wisdom that every father should hear. While addressing important issues like self-esteem, acceptance, forgiveness, and approval, Dear Dad shines a light on eleven key messages from kids to their dads.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785280790
• ISBN13: 9780785280798
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

An outstanding and insightful book for dads. Invaluable.

It's very difficult for fathers to see themselves as their children see them. After interviewing 1,500 kids Doug Webster tallies the answers to three basic questions and the cry of the hearts of children can't be misunderstood - "Dad, please be with me" "Don't hurt me" "Listen to me", etc. I was humbled by the notes kids wrote their dads seeing myself in many of them. I was also greatly encouraged as Doug Webster has concrete, practical solutions to the entire range of difficulties dads and children have. This book has already made a dramatic difference in my life and in the lives of my (5) children. A great and greatly useful book. No dad would be unchanged after reading it.

This book can change your relationship with your dad.

I bought this book as a Christmas gift for my dad. Although I am grown, it still says the things that I have always wanted to tell him. The author interviewed children who were candid in their search for their father's love and acceptance. He presented their answers in a sensitive and non-threatening way. After my father finished the book, I received the first hug from him in over twenty years. This book expressed the words that I could never say to my dad, and maybe now we can start our relationship over.