Parenting Boys

Here is a landmark book that reveals the way boys think and that shows parents, educators, and coaches how to reach out and help boys overcome their most common yet difficult challenges - by the best-selling author who changed our conception of adolescent girls. What you'll find in Masterminds and Wingmen is critically important for every parent - or anyone who cares about boys - to know. Collaborating with a large team of middle- and high-school-age editors, Rosalind Wiseman has created an unprecedented guide to the life your boy is actually experiencing - his on-the-ground reality.

In this compelling book, listeners will explore our many kinds of "blind spots", from the physical to the interpersonal: how we get them, how to reveal them, and how to work with our newfound awareness. Drawing upon neuroscience, meditation research, true personal accounts, and more, The Blind Spot Effect invites us into this hidden world. What unfolds is both a learning journey and a practice guide to bring our own unseen dimensions to light, learn from them, and help others along the way.

For a young American boy in the 1950s, Fontainebleau was a sight both strange and majestic, home to a continual series of adventures: a different language to learn, weekend visits to nearby Paris, family road trips to Spain and Italy. Then there was the château itself: a sprawling palace once the residence of kings, its grounds the perfect place to play hide-and-seek. The curiosities of the small town left such an impression on him that 30 years later, Thad Carhart returned to France with his wife to raise their two children.

Many parents consider potty training to be one of the most difficult hurdles to guide their growing toddler through. It can be frustrating, time consuming, and stressful for the whole family. You may have been told by friends and family that the only option is to spend months working with your child to get them out of diapers, and that the only way to do it is to accept a long, strenuous ordeal. But what if you could do all of that work in just three days?

Guarding the Heart: A Devotional Journey into Purity, Integrity, and Spiritual Leadership In a world filled with challenges and temptations, Guarding the Heart offers young men the wisdom and guidance they need to live with purity, integrity, and spiritual strength. Written by John M. O’Malley, this heartfelt devotional is a collection of letters from a father to his son, designed to instill biblical values in the hearts of young men as they navigate relationships, culture, and their faith journey. With practical insights, real-world reflections, and scriptural truths, each devotion ...

Is your teenage son battling unseen forces that seem to control his thoughts, emotions, and behaviors? Are you desperate to break the chains of addiction, rebellion, and spiritual oppression that have gripped his life? In a world filled with temptations and negative influences, many parents are left feeling helpless and overwhelmed. But you are not alone—and there is hope. "Deliverance Prayers for Your Teenage Son" is more than just a prayer book. It is a spiritual toolkit crafted specifically for parents who desire to see their sons walk in freedom, strength, and victory. Written with a ...

"While it may seem as if we live in a man's world," reports William Pollack, "we do not live in a boy's world." Many boys today are struggling either silently, with low self-esteem and feelings of loneliness and isolation, or publicly, by acting out feelings of emotional and social disconnection. Why? Because The Boy Code - society's definition of what it means to be a boy - demands that boys suppress or cover up their emotions.

"The Boy with a Rifle" is a profound and timely criticism of youth engaged in senseless violence against nature. Their actions are often not by choice but rather due to a lack of prescribed choices. The author, Jaime Bedoya Martinez, vividly captures the chaotic energy of young boys as they explore their surroundings. As a passionate devotee of nature and its importance in our lives, Jaime describes the tragedy when idle thinking partners with humanity’s tendency to destroy, not malevolently but blindly. The reader will agonize as school children—presumably innocent, sentient, and moral...

The syndicated sex-advice columnist of "Savage Love" tells a no-holds-barred story of an ordinary American couple who want to have a baby, except that in this case, the couple happens to be Savage and his boyfriend.

In this groundbreaking book, psychologist Ted Zeff explores the unique challenges of sensitive boys, showing parents, educators, and mentors how to help sensitive boys grow into strong, happy, and confident men. Dr. Zeff offers practical advice on how to help your son increase his self-esteem and thrive in the family, at school, with friends, and in sports.

In an age when respect and honor seem like distant and antiquated relics, how can we equip boys to pursue valor and courageously put the needs of others before their own? This book helps parents to inspire their boys by captivating their imagination and honoring their love for adventure. Heather Haupt explores how knights historically lived out various aspects of the knights' Code of Chivalry, as depicted in the French epic Song of Roland, and how boys can embody these same ideals now.

One minute, they come to you for everything... the next, they seem to have closed off completely. Here's your guide to keeping those all-important conversations flowing throughout the teen years. Is every question you ask suddenly greeted with a grunt or a complete evasion of the question? Are you banished from your child’s room, left wondering what secrets are hidden in there with the dirty plates and the laundry you’ve been begging for all week? Sounds like you have a teenager on your hands! Adolescence is one of the most difficult periods of life, yet at the time we want to help them...

Combating the idea of adolescence as a vacation from responsibility, Alex and Brett Harris weave together biblical insights, history, and modern examples to redefine the teen years as the launching pad of life and map a clear trajectory for long-term fulfillment and eternal impact.

When MaryAnne Howland's son was turning 13, she organized a "Black Mitzvah" rite of passage celebration for him. Max is one of the one-in-three children in America being raised without a father in the home. Among African Americans, that number is reported to be as high as 72 percent. To help fill the father-shaped hole in Max's life as he transitioned from boyhood to manhood, MaryAnne invited four men from different corners of her life - an engineer, a philanthropist, a publisher, and a financial planner - to become Max's mentors.

When Reece arrives at Cathy's door aged 7 years old, he has already passed through the hands of four different carers in four weeks. As the details of his short life emerge, it becomes clear that to help him, Cathy will face her biggest challenge yet. The latest title from the author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Damaged. Reece is the last of six siblings to be fostered. Having been in care for four months his aggressive and disruptive behaviour has seen him passed from carer to carer.

Meet my billionaire boss—a dominant alpha man with a smug grin that drives me insane. But I want to slap that smug grin off his face. He's billionaire royalty, and his empire is on the brink of collapse. I’m his receptionist, secretly harboring fashion dreams. Determined to save my boss’s failing empire. When I design a dazzling swimsuit that could resurrect his brand. It catches his eye… along with my curvy assets. In the office, he’s cold as ice. But behind closed doors, sparks ignite. He’s the ultimate forbidden temptation, completely off-limits. We fall for each other and ...

Hidden far from sight, deep in the thick underbrush of the North Florida woods are the ghostly graves of more than 30 unidentified bodies, some of which are thought to be children who were beaten to death at the old Florida Industrial School for Boys at Marianna. It is suspected that many more bodies will be found in the fields and swamplands surrounding the institution.

Jeni Decker is five-foot nothing and one hundred and [redacted] pounds - a self-described roly-poly, forty-something, Reubenesque bon-bon of a gal, often called cute but never sexy. She has two sons with autism on opposite ends of the spectrum (Jake and Jaxson), a husband who prefers hunting to household chores, an Australian Shepherd named Sugar, and an albino frog named Humbert Humbert. This is her story - a brash, personal, and sometimes shocking memoir.

Two years before adopting seven-year-old Keydell from a group home for young boys, Kim made a vow before the Dalai Lama to become a bodhisattva: one who cultivates an enlightened mind, is free from delusion, and practices kindness and compassion above all else. However, she struggles with this practice as her new son's challenged mind sends him into fits of rage and violence, while seemingly allowing him to feel no remorse for his actions. His behaviors go against everything Kim believes in, but she is determined to keep her chocolate-eyed boy safely in the home she has created with her ...

Joe Trohman cofounded Fall Out Boy with Pete Wentz in the early aughts, and he’s been the sticky element of the metaphorical glue-like substance holding the band together ever since, over the course of a couple decades that have included massive success, occasional backlashes, and one infamous four-year hiatus. From the guitarist’s very first glimpses of their popular ascension, to working with his heroes like Anthrax’s Scott Ian, to writing for television with comedian Brian Posehn, Trohman takes listeners backstage, into the studio, and onto his couch.