Guess what? It’s not another computer game, it‘s you. We’ll look at how to get the most of your time with your son.

Boys need strong relationships with their parents, period. Every boy, without exception, wants a better relationship with his mother and father because his physical and emotional survival depends on it.

Boys spend far too little time with their parents and suffer because of it. In one survey, 21 percent of kids said that they needed more time with their parents. But when the parents of these kids were polled, only 8 percent responded they needed more time with their children. We become so absorbed with keeping up with our daily lives that we miss seeing what our boys really need, which is simply more of us: our time and our attention.

In our earnestness to make up for lost time, to help our boys, we give them all the wrong things. But our boys don’t need things, they need us. Even just being around us: watching how we handle life, how we talk, listen, help others, and make our decisions. Every son is his father’s apprentice, studying not his dad’s profession but his way of living, thinking, and…