Parenting Boys Quotes

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“He talks some more about classes he likes--not many--and those he doesn't like, and it is clear that, whatever sophisticated planning has gone into curriculum design at Alan's school, the distinction between a good class and a bad class, from his point of view, has a lot to do with the freedom it offers to stand up and walk around.”
Dan Kindlon, Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

Clementine Ford
“Boys will be sensitive. Boys will be soft. Boys will be kind. Boys will be gentle. Boys will respect girls. Boys will be accountable for their actions. Boys will be expressive. Boys will be loving. Boys will be nurturing.

Boys will be different from everything the world has so far told them they have to be in order to be a man.”
Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship