Helping Boys Succeed in School

by Terry Neu and Rich Weinfeld (2006, Prufruk Press, 16.95)
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Helping Boys Succeed in School gives parents and teachers the tools they need to help boys succeed, including strategies for channeling their interests, keeping boys actively engaged, increasing their participation in humanities classes like language arts, and dealing with the unique social and emotional problems they face in school. [6” x 9”...220 pages]

Boys of Few Words: Raising Our Sons to Communicate and Connect

by Adam Cox (2006, Guilford, 14.95)
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Psychologist Cox helps parents understand all the factors that may be limiting their son's ability or willingness to communicate, and helps them choose specific strategies to help the teen express himself. [6” x 9”...337 pages]

The “What’s Happening to My Body?” Book for Boys

by Lynda Madaras (2007, Newmarket Press, 12.95)
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Laced with great anecdotes, this book will hold your attention. It covers the body’s changing size and shape, growth spurts, reproductive organs, perspiration, pimples, voice changes, beard growth, puberty in girls, and much more. Black & white drawings. Grades 5-9. [5” x 8”...233 pages]

The Wonder of Boys

by Michael Gurian (2006, Tarcher, 14.95)
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Unlike many parenting guides that try to eliminate competition, aggression, and violence entirely, this book offers guidelines for channeling boys' energy—without accepting antisocial behavior as an inevitable accompaniment. Therapist Michael Gurian explains what a boy really needs—a primary and an extended family, a relationship with mother, father, and mentors, as well as intense support from school and community. [6” x 9”...320 pages]

Praising Boys Well: 100 Tips for Parents and Teachers

by Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer (2006, Da Capo Lifelong Books, 13.95)
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With two tip lists, one for parents and one for teachers, this easy-to-use handbook is a guide to revisit time and again for our boys many successes. Shows adults how to strike the right balance between giving effective praise and not going overboard. Provides countless tips on what to encourage, which phrases to use and aviod, when to utilize incentives, and how to incorporate praise into boys' everyday activities to develop healthy self-esteem. [5” x 8”...229 pages]

The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life

by Michael Gurian (2007, Jossey-Bass, 15.95)
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Boys receive the majority of the D's and F's given all students, and they create 90 percent of classroom discipline problems. Eighty percent of all high school dropouts are boys…the stats go on, and on. Based on years of research and classroom application with teachers, school districts, parents, communities, and policy makers, this book presents for the first time a detailed program and strategy for helping boys learn the basics—reading, writing, math, and science. [6” x 9”...351 pages]

Why Boys Don't Talk...And Why It Matters: A Parent's Survival Guide to Connecting with Your Teen

by Susan Shaffer & Linda Gorgon (2005, McGraw-Hill, 14.95)
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Many adolescent boys are notoriously uncommunicative. Unfortunately, too many parents equate not talking with not feeling, and, as the authors explain in this groundbreaking guide, parents who make that assumption end up validating only the most superficial aspects of their sons. [6” x 9”...224 pages]

Bringing Up Boys

by James Dobson (2001, Tyndale House, 22.99/hardback)
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Dobson offers advice and encouragement based on Biblical principles for parents, teachers, social workers, youth leaders and counselors involved in raising and educating boys. [6” x 9”...250 pages]

Raising Confident Boys: 100 Tips for Parents & Teachers

by Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer (2000, Fisher Books, 13.00)
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Each tip describes a straightforward action that parents or teachers can take and explains what makes it a confidence-booster. Two easy-to-use lists, one for parents and one for teachers, offer specific suggestions for supporting the action. These ideas fit effortlessly into the regular interactions that significant adults have with the boys in their lives. [5” x 8”...224 pages]

Boy Talk: How You Can Help Your Son Express His Emotions

by Mary Polce-Lynch (2002, New Harbinger, 14.95)
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Tells why so many open and expressive boys turn into uncommunicative adolescents. Building on interventions developed in her clinical practice, the author provides practical everyday strategies to help boys develop a full range of emotional awareness and expression. [6” x 9”...200 pages]

Raising a Son

by Michael Don & Jeanne Elium (2004, Celestial Arts, 14.95)
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Addresses the unique challenges that boys bring to families at each stage of their development. Guides mothers and fathers as well as single parents in the parts they must play in the making of a healthy, assertive, and loving man. [6” x 9”...244 pages]

The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys & Young Men

by Michael Gurian (1999, Tarcher, 14.95)
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A definitive plan, organized by each year of a boy’s life, to build character in our sons. The author (widely credited with bringing the “boys movement” to the public eye) demonstrates how to instill virtues in boys at each stage of life. [6” x 9”...391 pages]

Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood & the Search for Meaning

by Barbara Kerr & Sanford Cohn (2001, Great Potential Press, 24.95)
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Why do so many smart boys have problems with depression and anger in adolescence or later in their adult years? Why do so many of our brightest boys and young men underachieve in school and fail to reach their full potential in the world of work? Why do so many of them struggle to succeed in their personal relationships? This book includes suggestions for helping smart boys stay motivated, thought-provoking insights for gifted men, examinations of current research and books, and personal interviews with men who have experienced mid-life crises or failures. [6” x 9.5”...358 pages]

Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different—How to Help Them Become Happy & Well-Balanced Men

by Steve Biddulph (1998, Celestial Arts, 12.95)
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The most crucial issues that happen from birth to manhood in the male's lifetime are presented. Biddulph maps out parenting strategies for three distinct stages of growth—from birth to six years, from six to 14, and from 14 to adult. [5.5” x 8.5”...216 pages]

The Courage to Raise Good Men

by Olga Silverstein & Beth Rashbaum (1994, Penguin, 12.95)
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The author questions our traditional notions of manhood and calls for mothers and fathers alike to refuse to sanction the emotional shutdown we traditionally demand of boys, thus enabling sons to grow up to be not only strong men, but whole people. [5” x 8”...276 pages]

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

by Dan Kindlon (2000, Ballantine, 15.00)
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A look at the physical and emotional well-being of teenage boys—and the unique risks and dangers they face. Cutting through outdated theories of "mother blame," "boy biology," and "testosterone," this book shows how to work with a nation of boys who are hurting—sad, afraid, angry, and silent. [5.5” x 8”...298 pages]

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