Raising Boys: Why Boys are Different – and How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men - Softcover

Biddulph, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008128030 ISBN 13: 9780008128036

Publisher: Thorsons, 2015

Synopsis

A word of mouth bestseller which has become one of the best loved and most successful books in the parenting field. With around 20% new material, 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:
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· How ADHD may be caused by stress in the first year of life.
· Whether boys should start school later than girls.
· How important it is to let boys cry, and how crying helps avoid violence, suicide, and risky behaviour.
· Two completely new stages of boyhood we didn’t know about: the FULL ON FOURS and the EMOTIONAL EIGHTS
· 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.

About this title

Review:

‘a mix of Billy Connelly and Dr Spock ... Steve Biddulph is a publishing phenomenon’ The Times

‘Steve’s advice is easy to follow – and more importantly, it works.’ BBC Family Life Magazine

‘When you find a guru willing to change his mind when evidence and humanity prompt, you rejoice. For me, Steve Biddulph – one of the most popular [parenting gurus] in the world, with four million books sold – is the man.’
Libby Purves, The Times

‘Biddulph... has a built-in feel good factor. Parenting books too often make one fell inadequate, but Biddulph’s left me refreshed and optimistic.’
The Express

‘Packed full of pithy wisdom on what it is to move from boyhood to manhood and how to help your (not-so) little one on his way.’
The Independent

From the Publisher:

Thought-provoking insights, personal stories and practical help!

How can we teach boys to be happy, confident and kind?
The three stages of boyhood, and how to make them go smoothly.
Testosterone! How it changes behaviour and what to do about it.
How boy's brains are different.
Understanding boy's vulnerabilities and how to overcome them.
How mothers teach boys about life and love.
The five essentials that fathers provide (and what to do if you're a single mum).
How to help boys learn a caring attitude to sex.
Sport – encouraging the right values in boys.
Eight major changes schools must make to be good places for boys.

Parents and teachers will find this a breakthrough book which changes their outlook on boys for the better, forever.

Everyone who has boys today is concerned for them. Everywhere we look, boys are having trouble with their lives. Parents want to understand better what makes boys tick, and how to help them be happy, loving and capable.

In Raising Boys, Steve Biddulph looks at the most important issues in

boys' development form birth to manhood – and discusses the warm, strong parenting and guidance that boys need. He brings his humour, honesty and practical knowledge of families to the vital task of raising our sons.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorsons
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0008128030
• ISBN 13: 9780008128036
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224