HQ775 .T55 2008It's a boy! : Understanding Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18
Psychologist Thompson and journalist Barker's previous three cowritten books including the high-profile Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys are all about parenting, and parenting boys in particular. In this more comprehensive work, they provide parenting advice tied to eight different stages of child development; there is a chapter on each and an additional one addressing the psychology of transitioning to parenthood. The clever format makes this both an easy resource for short reads about your child's current developmental stage and a good way to get answers to specific questions. Small insets contain quotations from a boy or a parent whom the authors interviewed, while larger insets focus on such typical parenting issues as determining when your child is ready for kindergarten, sibling rivalry, and corporal punishment (banned, as the authors point out, in many EU countries). The chapters on boys aged 14 18 are particularly strong, with useful, intelligent information about academic underachievement and boys' computer, video-game, and television usage. The authors encourage parents not to pathologize and, above all, to enjoy their boys. Recommended for all public libraries. Fran Mentch, Cleveland State Univ. Lib. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Thompson, Michael, 1947-
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Psychologist Thompson and journalist Barker's previous three cowritten books including the high-profile Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys are all about parenting, and parenting boys in particular. In this more comprehensive work, they provide parenting advice tied to eight different stages of child development; there is a chapter on each and an additional one addressing the psychology of transitioning to parenthood. The clever format makes this both an easy resource for short reads about your child's current developmental stage and a good way to get answers to specific questions. Small insets contain quotations from a boy or a parent whom the authors interviewed, while larger insets focus on such typical parenting issues as determining when your child is ready for kindergarten, sibling rivalry, and corporal punishment (banned, as the authors point out, in many EU countries). The chapters on boys aged 14 18 are particularly strong, with useful, intelligent information about academic underachievement and boys' computer, video-game, and television usage. The authors encourage parents not to pathologize and, above all, to enjoy their boys. Recommended for all public libraries. Fran Mentch, Cleveland State Univ. Lib. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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