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Raising Boys

Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different - And How To Help Them Become Happy And Well-Balanced Men

by Steve Biddulph

4.00 out of 5 (2 ratings)

Format:
Paperback 
Pages:
224 
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers 
Publication Date:
03 March 2003 
Category:
Social Groups 
ISBN:
9780007153695 

Description

A word of mouth bestseller which has become one of the best loved and most successful books in the parenting field. Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys is to be re-released this month with some startling new research on what helps - and what harms - boys. In this expanded and updated edition, Steve Biddulph shares and gives practical and honest advice to parents so they can recognise the different stages of boyhood and learn how to raise happy, confident and kind young men. Boys need to be parented in a different way from girls with their own very special psychological and physical make-up. Home, society and education have failed boys badly - and these failures lead to unhappy men who cannot fully become happy, responsible, emotionally-confident adults. While it is essential that boys spend more time learning about manhood from their fathers, Biddulph updates his classic to include helpful information for mothers and single mothers with baby boys. This extended edition explores some important topics: . * How ADHD may be caused by stress in the first year of life. * Whether boys should start school later than girls. * Help for single mothers raising sons. * How to choose a sport that does more good than harm. * What we can do about boys and binge drinking. * What science can tell us about teenage boys and driving - and how we can keep our sons safe. Raising Boys offers parents real-life situations, thought-provoking insights, humour and help.

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  • Great book that emphases the importance of the mothers influence in teaching them about love and what it means to be love until 6 years of age. Thereafter the important role fathers play in providing a role model for the boy until the age of 13. Thereafter the important role mentors play in the boys development. Great read for first time mom and dads.

    4.00 out of 5

    thanesh

  • An excellent book detailing how and why boys are different to girls, and what that means for the way they should be raised. Boyhood is divided into three broad sections: 1. birth to six, when their mother is the centre of their world, 2. six to fourteen, when their father takes the limelight, and 3. fourteen to adult, when male role models come to the fore. I found the discussions very balanced, not overemphasising the differences, simply acknowledging that most boys will be more (various characteristics) than most girls. I would recommend this book to parents of boys, but also to anyone working with boys, particularly those men in the position of role model.

    4.00 out of 5

    eclecticdodo

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