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Coming April 2025!

Challenging Boys:

A Proven Plan for Keeping Your Cool and Helping Your Son Thrive

Learn how to stay calm while you teach your son the skills he needs to face life’s challenges with resilience.

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Praise for Challenging Boys

Tim Davis takes readers beyond blame, beyond simplistic solutions, and beyond hopelessness, to a place of hope and the possibility of deep change.

Lawrence Cohen, PhD, author of Playful Parenting and The Opposite of Worry

While this book is advertised to be for parents of challenging boys, I think the wisdom and recommendations in the book would be helpful to most parents of any child.

Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at University of British Columbia

In this book, Dr. Davis offers parents and therapists insightful and sympathetic understanding of difficulties raising and helping youngsters struggling with meeting the demands of development. With clear explanations of the various sources of trouble for kids and their parents, he offers a practical, programmatic plan for parents to work through the problems and generate better solutions for themselves and their children.

Kerry Kelly Novick, FIPA, life-cycle psychoanalyst, co-author of Working with Parents Makes Therapy Work

Davis offers us an essential to guide to parenting “challenging” boys, and in doing so he teaches us how to better parent all children in challenging times. … There is up to date science, and there is valuable, approachable advice.

Mark O’Connell, PhD, author of The Good Father and The Marriage Benefit

With compelling vignettes and useful exercises, this book is essential reading for parents seeking to rediscover joy in their relationship with their growing boy.

Claudia M. Gold, MD, pediatrician and author of Getting to Know You: Lessons in Early Relational Health from Infants and Caregivers

In Challenging Boys you’ll learn:

  • The true causes of your son’s defiance (it isn’t bad parenting and he’s not a bad kid).

 

  • Why it is so hard to keep your cool and how to finally do it.

 

  • How to use the tools of discipline to teach your son the skills he needs to be able to face life’s challenges with resilience.

 

  • How to build a relationship based on trust and connection where you and your son are working together to make everyone in the family’s lives better.

About the Author

 

J. Timothy Davis, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with 30 years of experience specializing in child, adolescent, couples, and family therapy. He holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for twenty-five years. Dr. Davis’s work emphasizes understanding the underlying causes of challenging behavior and equipping parents with proactive strategies to remain calm and connected while they teach their son the skills he needs to face life’s challenges with resilience. For more information, you can visit his official website drtimothydavis.com.