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• Available in Paperback, Kindle & Audiobook •

'Be Famous in your Family'

This book will help you be a great parent (and enjoy it), have fantastic relationships and live a happy, healthy life

Why you'll get heaps out of it...

  • Its made for Dads who don't read parenting books. 

  • Interesting and easy to read with stories, examples and illustrations.

  • Full of practical advice to help you in your Dad life. 

  • It will re-affirm being a Dad is great and one of the best investments of our time

Have a look inside: Easy to read & full of gold

What Dad's say about Be The Dad:

"Thank you for 'BeTheDad', saved me, my relationship and my kids from losing my way as a man and a dad"

Brett

'Incredibly encouraging, real life stuff that's easy to apply'

Ben

"This book is great at helping your rediscover what it means to be a Dad. The advice is simple to understand and easy to apply in your own life"

Tom

"This book is clear, based on logic and is all about implementing strategies to get results and be the Dads we aspire to be"

Hamiora

Meet the Author - Ferg Turnbull

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Hi, I'm Ferg, a father of 5 kids aged 5 - 15. I have a full-time day job, and in addition to family life; I draw, coach sports, love shooting hoops, lego, playing boardgames with the family and having a laugh.

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Why I wrote BeTheDad:

My wife and I were leading a new parents group and as I was sharing tips from parenting our family, some of the parents commented 'you should put this into a book'.

So I started writing a blog aimed at Dad's, adding pictures and bullet points to make it simple, interesting, and easy to apply. 

About a year later a soldier from the Australian Army  wrote me saying 'BeTheDad' had saved his marriage! When I excitedly told my family about this, my mother-in-law Betsy encouraged me to make the blog into a book and offered to edit it for me. Months later after she finished the edit, Betsy told me 'you need to get this out to men, they need to hear this'. 

This was one of the last things Betsy said to me as she passed away unexpectedly in the days that followed. I made it my mission is to do just that, to get it out to help as many Dads as possible

I would love it if you could help me by buying a book for yourself or another Dad or parent and then passing it on after you have read it :)                

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Newly released on Audible and other platforms!

Shops where you can buy the book:

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Petronellas Bookstore - Lake Tekapo

Paper Plus Hornby - Hornby Mall - Christchurch

Next Chapter Bookstore, Wanaka

University Bookshop - University Drive, Ilam Christchurch 

The Clocks Bookshop - 12 Normans Road, Strowan Christchurch 

ITM Kaiapoi

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Free resources from the book

BeTheDad
'My Time Budget'

How much time do you have in your life for all you need and want to do?

Fill out our interactive online form (desktop only at this stage)

BeTheDad
'Device use questionnaire'

Print and fill out this sheet with your kids to form the basis for a healthy device use agreement.

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Practical Questions for you and your preteenteens to answer to establish an agreement How

Terms of Service: Buy a book, we ship it and you enjoy reading!

Refund policy: Books are NZ made and checked for being in great condition before shipping. Product faults not caused by shipping will be replaced on return.  

* For one book, non rural within New Zealand

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