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This book has really helped open my eyes and understand more about boys. It is an excellent resource I have read more than once and I have recommended to friends and school teachers as well. It should be mandatory reading for teachers and counslers, and a definite read for all parents with boys. The only downside I found to this book, is the fact that it is written using complex terms and is very lengthy. Therefore, I think this book can be intimidating to the majority of people/teachers/parents. This book would be even more wonderful if it were written, in a simpler version, to reach out to the general masses who need help. It is also sad to note that the majority of health insurances will not cover a PET brain scan in relation to ADD/ADHD test. These companies would rather waste the money/time on pschological reviews and prescriptions, rather than utilize a clear-cut, physically determinable answer such as the scan. It makes one wonder how much doctors/insurance companies get for prescription kick backs and how much they stand to lose if the PET scan is used.
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Having a daughter as a first born, and she being an almost perfect child, receiving compliments about her from all directions, I thought this boy of mine was - well I was confused. I was attempting different types of disciplinary actions yet it never worked for him, or rather me. Then, having read the book, I see him in a most different light. Learning to accept him as just another boy, and I am sure his teachers had told me that he is just another boy, yet I did not comprehend the idea, until reading this book. Accepting this fact, I now approach my son differently, and he sees me differently, and we enjoy each other's company to a higher level than before. I am thoroughly grateful that I was able to find such a great book that helps me understand and bond closer to my son.
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If you have boys this is a great book. It has helped me understand my sons more than ever. Great suggestions for school, too.
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to the author for writing this book! I truly also can't add anymore to the rave reviews this book has received. I can only say that this book is fantastic and has helped us understand "the minds of boys" tremendously! We've given several copies to our son's school for the teachers' library. Thank you, for a super book!
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The library at the college where I work puts out a list of new books they have purchased in our area once per month, and this book was on the psychology list back in January. I thought it looked interesting and picked it up then, thinking it might have some good things to say about a book I'm writing about men and depression. I finally picked it up and started reading it last week, and finished it in less than a week. I really enjoyed the authors' styles of writing which made some of the technical information more accessible and easier to understand, which to me means it would be a great resource for students studying education and for parents of boys of all ages.
If it's so great, what's it about, you ask? A lot actually. The first thing that they discussed that caught my eye was the idea that for the past few years we've focused on girls and how to educate them better, and now the authors think it's time we focused on boys who were not doing well in school. It's not that we're helping girls to the detriment of boys, but now that we've helped girls it's time to focus on boy education. They describe some of their negative experiences with the education system, and it makes me realize that the things I've heard from guys about school all my life weren't just "coming from my friends." I always assumed I hung out with the non-academic guys or the extremely smart guys who were just turned off by education. Come to find out there are a lot of boys (and future men) who were turned off to education by our educational system's lack of teaching them in a way that they can learn. As Gurian writes in another one of his books, Boys and Girls Learn Differently! Gurian and Stevens describe the brain differences between boys and girls (and men and women) that cause these differences in learning styles, and I think that that chapter is probably one of the most important ones in the book. I honestly don't see how college programs that are educating future teachers can NOT cover this stuff.
A second thing that makes this book so interesting to me was that they talked about behaviors boys demonstrate in learning environments and where they come from in the brain. The research is telling us that that fidgety, always-have-to-be-moving, can't sit still to save his life 6-year-old that I always tell to sit down when I'm trying to work with him actually CAN be moving and still learn, and in fact, SHOULD be moving in order to learn better. The authors describe "boy energy" and how many parents and teachers don't understand it, and they may thus assume their child has ADD or ADHD. That was another very interesting section of the book - there was a discussion of using brain scans (PET and SPECT) to diagnose brain anomalies such as ADD and ADHD. Ever since the research came out showing that some parts of the brain are different in kids with attention disorders I've wondered why we weren't using that information to diagnose, and now the Amen Clinics that the authors describe are doing this.
Overall I was highly impressed by this book, and it really has excited me to try out some research on my college students in terms of men and learning in the college environment using some of the suggestions they give for grade school education. If you are going to be a teacher, or you're a parent that has a boy who is school age, you should definitely read this book. I think that you'll easily recognize a good number of your students or your child's behaviors here, and reading this will give you a better understanding of how they think and where the behaviors come from.
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