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Raising Boys: Why Boys are Different - And How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-balanced Men
by: Steve Biddulph

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 649
EAN: 9780007153695
ISBN: 0007153694
Label: Thorsons
Manufacturer: Thorsons
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: March 03, 2003
Publisher: Thorsons
Studio: Thorsons
Sales Rank: 176

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Ok as a general overview, but not really worth bothering with..
I bought this book as I have just found I am expecting twin sons, and coming from a very female dominated family, wanted to try and get my head round it a bit. On the plus side, it is quite a short book and easy and accessible to read. However, because it trys to cover boys' development from birth to age 16, it is rather generalised with the result that no subject is really covered in depth, although it tends more towards advice for adolescents.

In a nutshell, the advice is to give boys lots of love and attention in the early years and provide them with good male role models later - general common sense really. This is interspersed with some more specific random advice, such as how to wash a baby boy's penis and some possibly not ... Read More:

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- Made me want a daughter!
I felt completely depressed when pregnant with my second son when I read this book! Mr Biddulph basically tells you that, as a mother, you are important to your sons till they reach five, then you can basically forget it, as you will always be of secondary importance to them compared to their fathers and you should just get on with doing their laundry and cooking them the odd meal or two!
I'm sure he is right to a certain degree but, after speaking to many people after reading this, it is a huge generalisation to say that most men worship their fathers and take their mothers for granted.
Also, he could really have written one chapter instead of a whole book as the central message is repeated again and again: "Male children need strong ... Read More:

Rating:

- Useful
I have read The Secrets of Happy Children by Biddulph, and found it extremely useful, so having a small boy on my hands decided me to investigate Raising Boys. I was not disappointed.

What I like most about Biddulph is that he is not preachy. He does not try to ram his message down your throat. He presents his case and is very careful to try and give a balanced view. Reading other reviews I note that some readers are critical of his belief that children are best raised at home until the age of three. I send my son to nursery school for one and a half days per week, and I feel that it is appropriate to do so. I have not changed my mind based on what Biddulph says. I feel that he has to tread a thin line between telling us things that ... Read More:

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- A parent/researcher
Overall, this book is a good contribution to the question of how to parent boys. However, he uses the appearance of research to endorse his personal view that boys are best cared for during the day by family members. In fact, the weight of evidence demonstrates that good quality childcare outside the family is positively beneficial for pre-school children of both genders.
I would challenge Steve Biddulph to produce a revised edition that incorporates real, direct evidence.

Rating:

- yes, but....
There are many good points in this book that were already mentioned by the other reviewers. I want to focus on the points that grated with me. First of all, the old out-dated 'research' that Biddulph cites that boys (and children in general according to his others books) are better off being raised at home. Negative research about day-care comes from the sixties when these institutions were little more than storage units for children (mind you, I only have very positive memories of the day-care in which I was raised in the sixties).
Newer research actually reveals that children who went early on into daycare are actually more popular and socially confident than their stay-at-home counterparts. This research comes from countries like Canada and ... Read More:

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