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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Raising Boys
A positive look at parenting sons.
Here's a hands-on parenting guide that takes readers from the birth of their sons to the day they head off to college. In warm, wise words, the husband-and-wife team who are parents of two sons themselves, explore all that is different and the same, precious and at times irritating, about the boys in their lives.
• Written by parents of a pair of teenage boys
• Offers a unique positive perspective
• Full of practical parenting tips
• Topics covered include school, discipline, puberty, bullies, girls, and much more
Here's a hands-on parenting guide that takes readers from the birth of their sons to the day they head off to college. In warm, wise words, the husband-and-wife team who are parents of two sons themselves, explore all that is different and the same, precious and at times irritating, about the boys in their lives.
• Written by parents of a pair of teenage boys
• Offers a unique positive perspective
• Full of practical parenting tips
• Topics covered include school, discipline, puberty, bullies, girls, and much more
- GenresParentingNonfiction
320 pages, Paperback
First published March 4, 2008
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About the author
Laurie A. Helgoe
10 books40 followersLaurie Anne Helgoe is an American psychologist and author specializing in personality development and the psychology of desire. Helgoe has a private practice in clinical psychology and serves as an assistant clinical professor at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, Charleston Division, supervising and lecturing psychiatric residents.
Raised as the ninth of ten children, she was surrounded by gregarious siblings and sought out solitude, reflection and writing to replenish her energy. This early discovery of the power of solitude had a profound influence on her later work.
In 2008, her writing revealed that scholarly and popular accounts regarding humans who display the personality traits of introversion and extroversion were flawed, and that, instead of representing a 25-30% of the population, introverts make up 57% of the population. The identified flaw was a dated reliance on the early work of Isabel Briggs Myers, and the failure to note the latest comprehensive results of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a questionnaire used by psychologists to classify human personality traits.
Raised as the ninth of ten children, she was surrounded by gregarious siblings and sought out solitude, reflection and writing to replenish her energy. This early discovery of the power of solitude had a profound influence on her later work.
In 2008, her writing revealed that scholarly and popular accounts regarding humans who display the personality traits of introversion and extroversion were flawed, and that, instead of representing a 25-30% of the population, introverts make up 57% of the population. The identified flaw was a dated reliance on the early work of Isabel Briggs Myers, and the failure to note the latest comprehensive results of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a questionnaire used by psychologists to classify human personality traits.
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September 20, 2011
When I told him that my wife and I were expecting a boy, one of my friends gave me this book, the first of the "Complete Idiot's" Guides I'd ever read. I hope the rest of the series isn't as idiotic. I can't say that I actually learned ANYTHING by reading this relatively thin book.
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