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William Pollack certainly has impressive credentials with respect to writing on this topic. This is apparent from the editorial reviews above. More importantly, he is a good writer who brings the inner life of boys and the challenges they face in our society to life. He provides both an inside view and a worthwhile outside perspective.
One of the repeating themes in the books is that we have contradictory expectations of men (boys) in our contemporary society. For example, on one level we expect men to be strong, tough, etc. At the same time, there is also a tacit expectation that contemporary men embrace the "New Age" ideal of being tender and vulnerable. Dr. Pollack points out that this causes many men to feel conflicted and often reduces them to painful silence and often isolation.
While Dr. Pollack covers the inside life of boys, he also does an admirable job of citing relevant statistics on how boys performance is slipping academically and other useful objective sociological data. He covers this issue from every angle and goes beyond diagnosing the problems to making concrete suggestions for parents, schools and society at large.
This book is a valuable addition to the literature on boys and the challenges they face. It is definitely a must own book for anyone who is raising a boy along with "Parenting from the Inside Out" by Daniel Siegel which is great for any parent.
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Makes many accurate observations about boy behavior and its origins,however,the book leans a little too much toward "feminization" of boys in preventing behavioral problems.This may be the politically-correct way to help boys,but not the productive way or the ethical way.
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If you are raising boys today I suggest reading this book before they enter the school system! Is he in school and saying things like, "that's gay" or "fag"? Sure he is, we raise them that way and don't even know it.
This book is for both parents but I think mothers will get more out of it. It will also explain to older boys, (adult) how they got messed up emotionally and the difficulties they have with intimacy. May also help to understand why their marriage failed. If you are a wife and want to try and save a marriage, read this book! Real Boys will clear up the myths and explain how NOT to raise real boys if you want them to be real men!!!
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The author makes some fantastic points in the first hundred or so pages in this book. He then makes those points over and over again until they have lost all meaning.
I just feel that the momentum of the narration in a book like this needs to be backed up by more then example after example that says the same thing.
Overall-If I had to read the term "gender straightjacket" or "boy code" one more time I would have shot myself in the head.
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I ordered the audiobook so that I could listen to it while I was driving. It was filled with examples of what my son has had to deal with at school. It was an opportunity for me to have an "insider's" view of what was really going on at school, how prevalent it is for this to happen to our sons, and what I could do to counter-act it with our son. The author narrated the audiobook, and gave a lot of real-world examples that he had compiled in the 20+ years he had served as a child psychologist.
I would recommend this book highly to anyone having to deal with bullying and their sons at school.
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