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Straight-up, hard-hitting advice on parenting teenage boys
Adolescent boys can be difficult to understand – barely communicating, isolating themselves, suggestable to drink and drugs. It’s no surprise that parents worry about their sons growing up and how they’ll turn out – and look for help to understand what their boys are going through.
Celia Lashlie has the answers. After years of working in the prison service she knows what can happen when boys make the wrong choices. She also knows what it’s like to be a parent. Throughout her years working as a researcher and social commentator, Celia has talked to hundreds of boys – what she found was surprising, amusing, and in some cases, frightening.
In this funny, honest, no-nonsense book, Celia Lashlie reveals what goes on in the world of boys, and with clarity and insight, she offers parents - especially mothers - practical and reassuring advice on raising their boys to become good, loving, articulate men.
About the Author
The first woman prison officer in a male prison, Celia Lashlie became manager of Christchurch Women’s Prison in New Zealand in 1997 and has since worked in a number of areas linked to high-risk children. She is the mother of two adult children.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was lucky enough to hear Ms Lashlie speak at my son's school and bought the book afterwards. She was an entertaining and funny speaker, and the book seems equally engaging. It is easy to read, full of practical advice and great insight into adolescent boys and what makes them tick. I have already tried a couple of her tips, with good results. Celia says that with the benefit of hindsight, she wishes she'd laughed more with her son. I'm trying to remember this sound advice when I feel like blowing a fuse about yet another pair of dirty socks left lying around on the sofa.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The author is from New Zealand and her research based there. It is equally relevant in the UK. Recommended by a friend in New Zealand and now easily available in the UK.
The book povides revealing insight into the minds of young men and what they are thinking. Rather than trying to change what is the natural progression of boy to man, the author gives vital tips on how to adapt a parent's way of dealing with them.
It encourages mothers to back off, and I have. The boys venture out, make mistakes but I am there as a safety net. I stand on the other side of the rope bridge across the ravine of puberty rather than pushing and pulling them down the track I want them to go down. Fighting all the way and collapsing with exhaustion.
As a widow I'm an only parent with few male relatives who have a strong influence on my 2 boys. I have given this book to many frustrated mothers who are struggling with trying to understand the way boys thinks and control them as we women try to do.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Forget the rest, get this book. Keep it by your bedside. It will transform your relationship for the better, ignore outside critics, make you feel better and keep your sanity. My Rating: 10* Lifesaver
The book povides revealing insight into the minds of young men and what they are thinking. Rather than trying to change what is the natural progression of boy to man, the author gives vital tips on how to adapt a parent's way of dealing with them.
It encourages mothers to back off, and I have. The boys venture out, make mistakes but I am there as a safety net. I stand on the other side of the rope bridge across the ravine of puberty rather than pushing and pulling them down the track I want them to go down. Fighting all the way and collapsing with exhaustion.
As a widow I'm an only parent with few male relatives who have a strong influence on my 2 boys. I have given this book to many frustrated mothers who are struggling with trying to understand the way boys thinks and control them as we women try to do.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Forget the rest, get this book. Keep it by your bedside. It will transform your relationship for the better, ignore outside critics, make you feel better and keep your sanity. My Rating: 10* Lifesaver
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For all mums of teenage boys. Valuable advice , author is a New Zealander who's done her research there within boys schools there, so a slight bias around boys in private education. She advocates that boys need the competitive sport that those schools are able to give, that they thrive in an all male environment in their teenage years, and that "white middle class mothers" need to back off a bit whilst they go through adolescence.
Down to earth, and what she says does make sense, but as a mother of 2 teenage boys within mainstream state education here in UK, then some of what she says doesn't apply, or you're left thinking that sport within state schools here is not what it could be; those who excel get attention, those who are average get ignored at times. but definitely worth a read.
Down to earth, and what she says does make sense, but as a mother of 2 teenage boys within mainstream state education here in UK, then some of what she says doesn't apply, or you're left thinking that sport within state schools here is not what it could be; those who excel get attention, those who are average get ignored at times. but definitely worth a read.
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