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Darrell V. Freeman grew up on the streets of south Philadelphia and was told by his high school guidance counselor that he would never make it in college.
“She told me to fight somewhere, in the army or Marines,” the Middletown area author said. “Now my philosophy is: Never tell a Freeman no.”
In 1994, the Westchester University graduate wrote his first book, “Investing in Our African American Youth: Can You Handle It.”
Freeman, who was just out of college at the time, was asked to run a youth department at a church.
“I didn’t know what to do,” he said. “I didn’t see any books or material written about working with inner city children, so I just started putting things on paper.”
And those 125 pages began his writing career.
On Dec. 14, Freeman released his seventh and eighth books, “A Father for Life,” and “What Men Want.”
“My children are literally what I live for,” he said. “It made writing ‘A Father for Life’ easy.”
For more than 30 years, Freeman has been working as a relationship counselor.
He has spoken at schools, churches, community centers and prisons across the country.
“I taught a free 8-week relationship makeover workshop. I did it on the outside in the community for couples and in the prison for nearly 100 men each week.”
At the prisons, Freeman would talk to the inmates about how to be ready for their relationships, marriages, children and “baby-mama’s” when they get out.
“A Father for Life,” gives all the key concepts related to becoming an effective father, he said.
The book of more than 140 pages gives Freeman’s detailed analysis on the six “C’s” of fatherhood; Copying, Communication, Closeness, Coaching, Co-Parenting and Commitment.
Freeman collaborated with Dr. Sheldon Nix and Project Manhood, a group that assists organizations to reach and develop at-risk boys into responsible young men for the book.
“I’ve spoken to thousands of men throughout the course of my career,” Freeman said. “No one really teaches fathers how to be good fathers early enough.”
Freeman’s father died when he was young, so the teenager turned to the streets to find a man to look up to.
“I grew up with the gangs and gang fighting and the drugs,” he said. “I had a need to know what manhood was about I learned it from the guys on the streets… What happened is I finally started saying there’s got to be more and better.”
Darrell V. Freeman grew up on the streets of south Philadelphia and was told by his high school guidance counselor that he would never make it in college.
“She told me to fight somewhere, in the army or Marines,” the Middletown area author said. “Now my philosophy is: Never tell a Freeman no.”
In 1994, the Westchester University graduate wrote his first book, “Investing in Our African American Youth: Can You Handle It.”
Freeman, who was just out of college at the time, was asked to run a youth department at a church.
“I didn’t know what to do,” he said. “I didn’t see any books or material written about working with inner city children, so I just started putting things on paper.”
And those 125 pages began his writing career.
On Dec. 14, Freeman released his seventh and eighth books, “A Father for Life,” and “What Men Want.”
“My children are literally what I live for,” he said. “It made writing ‘A Father for Life’ easy.”
For more than 30 years, Freeman has been working as a relationship counselor.
He has spoken at schools, churches, community centers and prisons across the country.
“I taught a free 8-week relationship makeover workshop. I did it on the outside in the community for couples and in the prison for nearly 100 men each week.”
At the prisons, Freeman would talk to the inmates about how to be ready for their relationships, marriages, children and “baby-mama’s” when they get out.
“A Father for Life,” gives all the key concepts related to becoming an effective father, he said.
The book of more than 140 pages gives Freeman’s detailed analysis on the six “C’s” of fatherhood; Copying, Communication, Closeness, Coaching, Co-Parenting and Commitment.
Freeman collaborated with Dr. Sheldon Nix and Project Manhood, a group that assists organizations to reach and develop at-risk boys into responsible young men for the book.
“I’ve spoken to thousands of men throughout the course of my career,” Freeman said. “No one really teaches fathers how to be good fathers early enough.”
Freeman’s father died when he was young, so the teenager turned to the streets to find a man to look up to.
“I grew up with the gangs and gang fighting and the drugs,” he said. “I had a need to know what manhood was about I learned it from the guys on the streets… What happened is I finally started saying there’s got to be more and better.”
When Freeman went to college, he pledged Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the first African American Greek fraternity.
“They taught me about right living, politics, the world of working and how to get a job,” he said. “That’s what got me going.”
The second release, “What Men Want,” is a booklet with audio CDs.
“It’s a help women to know booklet so that they can get better, do better, feel better, act better, respond better and enjoy respectfully the men that are in their lives or the men they hope to be with one day,” Freeman said.
Men like women who are a little sassy, he said.
“Men want unconditional love, sass and to be believed in,” Freeman said. “And what men really want, is the real you.”
