If you have boys or want insights on how to raise boys, Douglas Wilson’s book Future Men is a must read. As with Wilson’s other books, his writes with much conviction, wisdom, and bluntness. When reading his books, one always knows what Wilson’s points are because his points are very clear and straightforward.

The book is divided into four sections:

1. Understanding Future Men: This explains what masculinity is and what characterizes the definition of masculinity.
2. Molding Future Men: This section calls for the fathers to model for their future men in the making.
3. Future Men Against Themselves: This section discusses the kind of sins men are prone to and how parents can help in directing their paths.
4. Future Men with Others: This section deals with relationships with other people such as mothers, sisters, friends, etc. In addition, topics such as school work, book reading, sports, and competitions are discussed.

The only chapter I would not heartily recommend is chapter 4 (”A Covenant Home”) because it is rooted in a Covenant Theology framework of thinking about children (i.e., “covenant children”), which we do not agree with and find, at best, difficult to defend from the Scriptures.  Thus, this chapter can be simply skipped if you do not share the same conviction as CT’ers.