Parenting Boys

Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Shortland, on the outskirts of Newcastle, New South Wales. Both proud altar boys at the local Catholic church, they went on to attend the city's Catholic boys' highs schools: Glen to Marist Brothers and Steven to St Pius X. Both did well: Steven became a journalist, Glen a priest. But when Glen discovered another priest was sexually abusing boys, he reported the offending to police, breaking Canon Law and his vows to the Catholic 'brotherhood' in the process.

Are you constantly obsessing over the way your spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend, partner, or significant other is behaving as a result of his or her being depressed? Do you feel like your plans are always revolving around your husband, wife, or partner's mood swings? Do you feel like you always come second place to the depression your significant other suffers with?

For 20 years, Steve Biddulph’s groundbreaking book Manhood and the revised edition, The New Manhood, have had a remarkable impact around the world. Thousands of men have reconciled with their fathers, become more involved with their children, rejuvenated their marriages, and made sweeping changes to their lives.

An honest and candid look at dating from a matchmaker's perspective. Ladies, listen up! If you want to find love, then stop your bad habits now. This book is a candid, funny, and truthful account of the things we have all done when it comes to dating. You will see yourself in many of the bitches in this book, and perhaps it will be a wake-up call for you to take action, so you can Stop Being a Bitch and Get a Boyfriend.

In Mother to Son, Jasmine Holmes shares a series of powerful letters to her young son. These are about her journey as an African American Christian and what she wants her son to know as he grows and approaches the world as a Black man. Holmes deals head-on with issues ranging from discipleship and marriage to biblical justice. She invites us to listen as she reminds Wynn that his identity is firmly planted in the person and work of Jesus Christ, even when the topic is one as emotionally charged as race in America.

Larry had dreamed of sailing around the world ever since he first stepped foot into a sailboat at the age of 13. He held onto that dream for 30 years, until one day he realized that "it's now or never". He left his corporate job, trading his comfortable executive life for adventure. A true story memoir packed with lessons from the ocean that served as a teacher of seamanship, personal strength, growth, leadership, and perseverance, while Larry and his crew discovered themselves, and the world.

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. ...

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?

As an awkward high schooler, Wednesday struggled to find her place in Grand Rapids. Until a handsome senior encouraged her to believe how talented, smart, and wonderfully different she was. Naturally, Wednesday fell for him...He was falling, too. For another boy. Yet this one-sided crush proved life altering, paving the way for a string of “boyfriends” who offered Wednesday something deeper than physical connection.

AMAZON #1 BESTSELLER! The saga continues.... The words, "I love you" are echoed a million times a minute around the world, but what is love? Is it about a spiritual connection? Is love a form of infatuation? Are the words "I love you" a source of manipulation? In Ghetto Bastard: Book 2, twenty-six-year-old Malik Russell continues to discover the negative impact of love as he knows it. Society dictates that when a child is born, his mother automatically loves him. That she would protect and die for him--maternal love. But some mothers abuse their children, use them for financial gain, or ...

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.

The most popular guide ever about raising boys is back, significantly updated to help raise sons in a world that offers gender equality, respect, and a whole new kind of man but is still haunted by toxic masculinity. You’ll find cutting-edge science about the "physical fours", the "emotional eights" and how puberty can be turned into a positive time, along with hundreds of other practical tips for raising a son.

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AUTHOR Forming Happy and Intelligent Young People Are you ready to rethink education? “Brilliant Parents – Fascinating Teachers” by Augusto Cury, PhD, offers a new approach to parenting and teaching that is essential in today's fast-paced world. This book is not just a guide—it’s a call for change. A Crisis in Education: The Urgent Need for Change In modern society, raising happy, independent children has become increasingly difficult. We live in a world where parents and children hide their emotions, and teachers stick to conventional methods, limiting ...

As if juggling a life with half-a-dozen kids, including triplets, isn’t enough, Steve Tate receives the life-altering news that one of his triplets, Hayes, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. The once-star collegiate football player finds himself fighting for his son’s life. This memoir takes you through the various challenges he faced raising a family of six kids and balancing a career, all while his son battled the odds. Both Steve and his high-school sweetheart, Savanna, found hope and happiness through the example of their 20-month-old son Hayes.

Growing from a boy to a man is no easy task. Bodies are changing, social circles are evolving, hair is appearing in places it never was before - and on top of it all, there's the ever-present pressure to conform to the typical idea of what it means to be "manly". But it's easier to do if you're armed with facts. Using personal anecdotes as an overly observant mother of two boys and plenty of scientific information from her life as a neuroscientist, Mayim Bialik, PhD, star of The Big Bang Theory, talks directly to teen boys about what it means to grow from a boy to a man.

Jared Kindred left his home and family at the age of eighteen, choosing to wander across America on freight train cars and live on the street. Addicted to alcohol most of his short life, and withholding the truth from many who loved him, he never found a way to survive. Through this ordeal, Dave Kindred's love for his grandson has never wavered.

There is a special bond between mothers and their sons, and it never goes away. This book contains some of the best stories and poems from Chicken Soup's library honoring that lifelong relationship between mothers and their male offspring.

Tiny Hands, Big Steps: Motor Skills for 1-Year-Olds A Parenting & Activity Book to Build Daily Development Milestones Your baby’s first year is filled with exciting firsts — first reach, first crawl, first step. Tiny Hands, Big Steps is the perfect companion for parents who want to support and celebrate every small motor milestone along the way. Created by child development expert Hilal Ahmed Parray, Ph.D., this science-based guide combines parenting wisdom with 35 simple and joyful activities to build your baby's fine and gross motor skills — from grasping toys to clapping, crawling,...

No F*** Boys Allowed is an insightfully humorous, adult take on a dating type plaguing young women today. You’ll learn what to look out for when dealing with f--kboys, how to deal with heartbreak (no more crying on the couch with ice cream and chips, my friend), and ways to better yourself while searching for the one. It’s your own personal f--kboy survival guide!

Regardless of how wealthy or poor their parents are, all black boys must confront and surmount the "achievement gap": a divide that shows up not only in our sons' test scores, but in their social and emotional development, their physical well-being, and their outlook on life. As children, they score as high on cognitive tests as their peers, but at some point, the gap emerges. Why? This is the question Joe Brewster, M.D., and Michele Stephenson asked when their own son, Idris, began struggling in a new school.