Parenting Boys

Robert Ragland toiled every day on his family’s Appalachian tobacco farm as a young boy. His father, an impoverished and illiterate sharecropper, spent his earnings on alcohol and beat his children and wife constantly. And Robert couldn’t take one more strike. Meanwhile, Mennonite families had moved to town, providing food and comfort when Robert’s mother broke her leg. Witnessing compassion from these people, Robert wondered: What would it feel like to belong to a group where I was wanted, loved, and appreciated?

Think about it: You've got your Saturday night planned, maybe a cute outfit picked out, maybe even a reservation at that new Italian place you've been dying to try. You're excited, you've cleared your schedule, and you're looking forward to spending quality time with your man. Then, bam! A text message: "So sorry, something came up. Raincheck?" This happens once, maybe twice, you can probably let it slide. Life happens, right? But what if this becomes the norm? What if it's a pattern of last-minute cancellations, vague excuses, and rescheduled plans that never seem to materialize?

"While it may seem as if we live in a man's world," reports William Pollack, "we do not live in a boy's world." Many boys today are struggling either silently, with low self-esteem and feelings of loneliness and isolation, or publicly, by acting out feelings of emotional and social disconnection. Why? Because The Boy Code - society's definition of what it means to be a boy - demands that boys suppress or cover up their emotions.

A powerful, experiential journey from white cult to Black consciousness: Harrison Mooney’s riveting story of self-discovery lifts the curtain on the trauma of transracial adoption and the internalized antiblackness at the heart of the white evangelical Christian movement.

A realistic and comforting guide for parents is THE ADOLESCENCE AND IDENTITY. It offers street tried, science-based answers for raising blissful, solid, and fruitful young people. It also tells the young people on how they can identify who they are. You'll track down commonsense direction for: Providing adolescents with the structure and support they require while still allowing them the freedom they desire; influencing and motivating adolescents; assisting them in overcoming distractions that impede learning; safeguarding them from anxiety, isolation, and depression; engaging in productive...

Jeni Decker is five-foot nothing and one hundred and [redacted] pounds - a self-described roly-poly, forty-something, Reubenesque bon-bon of a gal, often called cute but never sexy. She has two sons with autism on opposite ends of the spectrum (Jake and Jaxson), a husband who prefers hunting to household chores, an Australian Shepherd named Sugar, and an albino frog named Humbert Humbert. This is her story - a brash, personal, and sometimes shocking memoir.

In 1954, a group of boys attended a remote summer camp in Oklahoma. There they were split into two groups and encouraged to bully, harass and demonise each other. The results would make history as one of social psychology’s classic studies: the Robbers Cave experiment. Conducted at the height of the Cold War, the experiment officially had a happy ending: the boys reconciled, and psychologist Muzafer Sherif demonstrated that while hatred and violence are powerful forces, so, too, are cooperation and harmony.

In The Boy Who Played with Fusion, science journalist Tom Clynes narrates Taylor Wilson's extraordinary journey - from his Arkansas home, where his parents fully supported his intellectual passions; to a unique Reno, Nevada, public high school just for academic superstars; to the present, when now 19-year-old Wilson is winning international science competitions with devices designed to prevent terrorists from shipping radioactive material into the country.

How to help our sons grow into happy, successful, capable adults. Recent decades have shown that boys are simply not thriving the way they should be. In Rescuing Our Sons, Dr. Duffy has developed eight practical parenting steps to improve your understanding of your teenager, equip him with life skills to improve his present and his future, and bring your family together.

His name was Kevin but his keepers called him Zoo Boy. He didn't talk. He hid under tables and surrounded himself with a cage of chairs. He hadn't been out of the building in the four years since he'd come in. He was afraid of water and wouldn't take a shower. He was afraid to be naked, to change his clothes. He was nearly 16. Desperate to see change in the boy, the staff of Kevin's adolescent treatment center hired Hayden. As Hayden read to him and encouraged him to read, crawling down into his cage of chairs with him, Kevin talked.

In "Jesse Sings," Victor Hess weaves a poignant tale of hope, resilience, and the lengths one boy will go to mend his fractured family. Set against the backdrop of a small town in the 1950s, where gossip spreads like wildfire and outsiders are met with suspicion, Jesse Hall’s life is anything but easy. His father’s descent into alcoholism and gambling shatters their once-loving family, leaving Jesse and his pregnant mother to fend for themselves in a new town.. Determined to overcome the adversity that threatens to destroy them, Jesse clings to the hope of seeing his family healed. ...

In an age when respect and honor seem like distant and antiquated relics, how can we equip boys to pursue valor and courageously put the needs of others before their own? This book helps parents to inspire their boys by captivating their imagination and honoring their love for adventure. Heather Haupt explores how knights historically lived out various aspects of the knights' Code of Chivalry, as depicted in the French epic Song of Roland, and how boys can embody these same ideals now.

When Reece arrives at Cathy's door aged 7 years old, he has already passed through the hands of four different carers in four weeks. As the details of his short life emerge, it becomes clear that to help him, Cathy will face her biggest challenge yet. The latest title from the author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Damaged. Reece is the last of six siblings to be fostered. Having been in care for four months his aggressive and disruptive behaviour has seen him passed from carer to carer.

In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him. As he confronts the bewildering process of grief, what starts as a love letter to one magical, coruscating human soon becomes a paean to all the gorgeous male friendships that have transformed his life.

Guy Stuff Feelings: Everything You Need to Know About Your Emotions is full of advice on dealing with the new feelings and emotions that are a part of puberty. Boys will find helpful tips from a pediatrician on identifying, managing, and expressing emotions—from anger to sadness to embarrassment to happiness—in positive ways.

¿Estás criando a un niño con TDAH que tiene dificultades para concentrarse, seguir las normas o regular sus emociones? Lo que necesita es una guía completa llena de actividades adaptadas al TDAH, técnicas de control del estrés y habilidades de crianza positiva para reducir las luchas de poder y mejorar la cooperación. En este libro encontrarás soluciones prácticas para chicos de entre 3 y 17 años.

In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian synthesizes current knowledge and clearly demonstrates how this distinction in hard-wiring and socialized gender differences affects how boys and girls learn. Gurian presents a new way to educate our children based on brain science, neurological development, and chemical and hormonal disparities.

Tired of Parenting Struggles? Discover the Secret to a Peaceful, Thriving Family Life Without the Stress and Frustration. Decoding ADHD: Essential knowledge for parents.

A word-of-mouth best seller which has become one of the best loved and most successful books in the parenting field. Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys is to be released on audio with some startling new research on what helps - and what harms - boys. In this expanded and updated audio 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.

Instead of succumbing to life on the streets, Kimbrough sought the one thing that would redeem him from that dismal, expected fate—education. This is the story of a young man who, despite all the forces that worked against him, fiercely determined to make a better life for himself, and is resolute about showing others the way.