Boys Adrift
By Dr. Leonard Sax, MD., PhD.
Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, they’re less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. In fact, a third of men ages 22–34 are still living at home with their parents—about a 100 percent increase in the past twenty years.
Parents, teachers, and mental health professionals are worried about boys. But until now, no one has come up with good reasons for their decline—nor, more important, with workable solutions to reverse this troubling trend.
In Boys Adrift, family physician and research psychologist Leonard Sax tackles the problem head on, drawing on the very latest research and his vast experience with boys and their families. He argues that a combination of social and biological factors is creating an environment that is literally toxic to boys. Misguided overemphasis on reading and math as early as kindergarten, too much time spent playing video games, over-reliance on medication for attention deficit disorders (much more common in boys than in girls), and overlooked endocrine disturbances are actually causing damage to boys’ brains.
Dr. Sax offers a wide range of reassuring remedies— including innovative ways parents can wean their sons away from video games, practical steps they can take to improve their sons’ schooling, and surprisingly simple life changes they can make to protect boys from the environmental estrogens that undermine boys’ motivation.
Filled with moving success stories that will inspire parents and teachers everywhere, Boys Adrift points the way to a new future for today’s boys and young men.
The Power of Positive Parenting
By Dr. Glenn Latham
This is the instruction manual that every parent needs. It is the core knowledge tool on how to raise children in a positive and loving way. More importantly, it is proven through the most comprehensive collection of research and trials on child behavior and parenting.
The Power of Positive Parenting provides sound principles and practical methods for working with children. This book is unique in that it presents the wisdom developed from decades of scientific research in a conversational, easy-reading style. It is full of real-life examples, graphic illustrations, and simple explanations that you can use today. It completely and clearly explains how to deal with 21 typical childhood behaviors, including teenage problems, tantrums, whining, bedtime, potty-training, fighting, and more from birth through adulthood.
When parents apply this positive parenting system, children will feel loved, accepted, and confident while they develop a healthy understanding of consequences and "discipline".
Protecting the Gift
by Gavin de Becker
“In Protecting the Gift, Gavin de Becker shares with readers his remarkable insight into human behavior, providing them with a fascinating look at how human predators work and how they select their targets and most important, how parents can protect their children. He offers the comforting knowledge that, like every creature on earth, human beings can predict violent behavior. In fact, he says, parents are hardwired to do just that.
Protecting the Gift provides a direct look at the strategies of predators, a study of how children are victimized, and a look at why. Understanding human violence empowers parents to protect their children more effectively. De Becker asks readers at the outset, “Of all the strategies you might bring to protecting your children, could ignorance about violence possibly be an effective one?”
Exploring issues surrounding child abduction, family violence, childcare workers, school safety, teenage dating, driving, drinking, and the often-deadly relationship between boys and guns, Protecting the Gift will enable parents to confidently answer some of life’s highest stakes questions.” (excerpt taken from the Gavin De Becker Website)
This book is such a powerful tool, to help parents stop living in fear, and take action to keep their kids safe. It also talks about what to do, if the unthinkable happens. This should be a must read for anyone that cares for a child. It also has an outline of questions to ask a school, before you trust them with your most precious gift. This book will not scare you- it will empower you. It will, however, open your eyes to the dangers women and children face everyday, and how to listen to your inner voice. It also give examples of what to do in certain situations.
This book will be added to our Parents Teaching Parents library by Fall 2010.
