- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (29 Jun 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140279709
- ISBN-13: 978-0140279702
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 497,651 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Daniel Goleman, best-selling author of Emotional Intelligence
"A long-needed insight into the psyche of boys. Every parent, teacher-or anyone who wants boys to flourish-should read this book."
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It is argued that the story of Cain and Abel endures as an archetypal myth because it offers a glimpse into the emotional tinderbox of the adolescent male psyche. This text is a plea to give boys the emotional education they desperately need to navigate the maelstrom of adolesecence. It aims to provide parents with the hands-on tools they may need to raise sons who embody the best traditional attributes of maleness, but who also give a rich inner life, and deep, meaningful relationships with both women and men.
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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a great read, well written and more than occasionally provocative. Kindlon and Thompson take a risk and open the lid on what it's like to be a boy and become a man. Provocative in that the authors endeavour to clarify what is different about being a boy and challenges us as parents and teachers to understand their internal experience.
The book explores why it is that things can go so desperately wrong with boys and identifies the most important features for them in growing up - teachers and schools, mothers and fathers and the inevitable peer group relationships. Perhaps most importantly the authors offer ways to relating to boys and young ment that build trust, respect and crucially, protects their emotional well-being.
As a father of two young sons and someone who works professionally in the field of exclusion and disaffection I felt this book articulated some of the most crucial issues facing communities at the brink of a new era; how we might best engage with our boys so that they can best become men for the new millennium.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Have you ever heard a parent say that to their son? Well I have. I am a therapist and come across a version of this almost weekly in my office. Does this impact the child? Certainly! Are there other responses that are more likely to be helpful and healthy? Absolutely! I recommend two books to the parents with whom I work. "Raising Cain" and a marvelous book called "Systemic Parenting: An Exploration of the Parenting Big Picture" by a family therapist named Mark Gaskill. Both should be MUST READS for parents They certainly provide tools that will help parents parent in the most helpful and healthy manner possible - helping to ensure that your son will excel and be successful in his future relationships.
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