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 includes 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.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780008283674
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 250 g
Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 18 mm
Edition: New and updated edition
‘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
In some ways this is a really helpful book and in others it just misses the mark completely. It seems to me that Steve relies too heavy on the idea that boys are so vastly different to girls and all of this comes down... More
I was recommended to read this book by a friend when my sons where tiny. She didn't do me a favour. The book is totally out of touch with modern boys. It scared the heck out of me by insinuating that by the time... More
I would imagine a person who sets out to write a book on boys would atleast engage with research on contemporary boyhoods and masculinities. I would not recommend this book at all
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