The Everything Parent's Guide To Raising Boys: A Complete Handbook to Develop Confidence, Promote Self-esteem, And Improve Communication

by Cheryl L. Erwin

A noted family therapist provides an authoritative parent's guide to raising a boy, offering positive, supportive advice on how to develop a strong relationship with one's son and tips on how to strengthen a child's self-image, instill solid values, define acceptable behavior, resist peer pressure, and honor commitments to family, community, and others. Original. 40,000 first printing.

Genres: Parenting, Self Help

304 pages, Paperback

First published June 12, 2006

Reviews

[M · Rating 2 out of 5]

A primer on how to raise a son. Nothing complicated, just good common sense advice.

[Emma Dunrud · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good book - there's a lot of places where we'll have to do more research on subjects, but the overall message was clear - keep communications open, stay involved, etc.

[Hannah · Rating 1 out of 5]

Meh. The only other "Everything" guide I've read is the one about making Indian food, and while I appreciated the dumbed-down Cliff Notes version in relation to making wet and dry masalas, I found the same concept applied to parenting and gender to be really offensive. I didn't get very far into the book, and maybe it gets better, but given the problematic deployment of David Reimer's story in the introduction I highly doubt it.

[Dena · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted this book to have better information in it, but alas, it was very basic.

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good book - there's a lot of places where we'll have to do more research on subjects, but the overall message was clear - keep communications open, stay involved, etc.

[Donnita · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was okay. I didn't get as much out of it as I had hoped.