Richard Dutrow

A deputy sheriff in Boulder County, Colorado, in 1974 Dutrow became the department's first juvenile specialist. And after his shift, he took his work home with him: as a foster parent, he'd bring troubled boys into his home, sometimes three or four at a time, helping to turn their lives around. "He was my hero," says Nic Dutrow, 20, one of three foster sons Dutrow legally adopted. "He basically saved my life. If I had left his home, I would be dead or in prison now." Dutrow "turned a lot of boys' lives around in the last 34 years," says Boulder County's current sheriff, Joe Pelle. He taught each boy how to shoot safely, to hike, to camp, and personal responsibility. Even as he grew older -- and ill with cancer -- he still took in new boys. "He would say, 'This is what I love to do'," his niece said. In all, more than 250 boys spent time under his roof. Dutrow also kept going to work, getting up each day until he collapsed on March 10, and died from cancer. He was 63. From This is True for 13 March 2005 Suggestions for further reading: Parenting With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition) by Foster Cline, Jim Fay Amazon Price: $16.49 Customer Review: This book is HORRIBLE! The whole tone is very patronizing. Some of the stuff is helpful and learning from natural consequences of their actions is important but that's not all there is in parenting. The few good ideas in this book were nothing new; I...   Parenting Teens With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition) by Foster Cline, Jim Fay Amazon Price: $16.49 Customer Review: Helped me to stop hovering over my child and give him the freedom to make his own choices. Great help.   Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with your Adult... by Dr. Ruth Nemzoff Amazon Price: $10.17 Customer Review: helpful, clear helped us by knowing others have faced this situation and helped us focus on reconnecting and forgetting the anger and disappointment. Needed more ideas.   The Pearls of Love and Logic for Parents and Teachers by Jim Fay, Foster W. Cline Amazon Price: $10.17 Customer Review: Love and Logic in any form is an amazing parental tool. Raising responsible, kind, giving people is so important. Love and Logic helps you accomplish this without losing control or getting upset. Love it!!   Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath Amazon Price: $6.99 Customer Review: If you read the dust jacket description and look at the cover's colorful image of endless waffles, you might get the idea that this book is a madcap, lighthearted story. It is not. Set on the Canadian coast of British Columbia, the story...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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