Introduction -- Learn the terrain -- Emphasize emotional intelligence -- Discuss and demonstrate healthy relationships -- Let him struggle -- Help him find and develop his talents -- Give him time -- Challenge him with chores and caregiving -- Keep him close -- Connect him to the real world -- Accept him as he is.
Summary:
"Building Boys offers tips and tools that parents can use to help boys move beyond persistent gender stereotypes to full humanity. Understanding, acknowledging, and respecting male development is key to facilitating boys' growth and making the world a safer place for humans of all genders."-- Provided by publisher. Confounded by rapidly changing gender norms, today's parents are attempting to raise kind, compassionate, emotionally sensitive boys in a society that simultaneously rewards stereotypical masculinity and is increasingly hostile to boys. Making the world safer for women and girls is not the only reason to rethink our boy raising practices: current culture harms our boys too. Fink offers rules that parents can use to guide their parenting choices: guidelines that are as relevant to parenting toddlers as they are to parenting teenagers. - adapted from jacket
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