Parenting Boys

Her skin crawls, she feels icky, and she's thinking of ways to get away from you when you are too damn nice, sweet, and kind to her - and she runs away as fast as she can from your niceness into the arms of a bad boy who is able to give her what she actually wants and makes her feel the deep and hypnotizing attraction that she will never feel for a nice guy.

In Saving Our Sons, Dr. Gurian features the latest research in male emotional intelligence, male motivation development, neurotoxicity and the male brain, and electronics and video game use. Linking practical solutions with strategic new policies based on 20 years of field work through the Gurian Institute, Dr. Gurian provides a seven-stage model for the journey to manhood in the new millennium. Moving effortlessly between the practical and the political, Dr. Gurian also tackles social and cultural issues facing our sons.

How to nail this parenting thing and raise responsible and happy teenage boys without getting into daily fights.... So, you’ve brought a young boy into this world, have you? And now it’s your job to raise him into one of society’s more prosperous and upstanding young men? Right. Although I’m sure this seems like quite the daunting task, please know that you are not alone, and that believe it or not, you are doing a great job! You are not a bad parent!

After a few short years, I learned that infidelity had infiltrated my marriage. I went through a phase of shock that quickly transitioned to extreme anger. During my angry stage I went through every emotion imaginable and made many mistakes that hindered my healing process. A process that could have been over very quickly took me years to get through.

One of the greatest gifts of life is bringing a new life into this world. We put so much thought into babyproofing the home and making sure we have the safest and most comfortable car seat. So if we put that much thought into the things that stick around for only a few months, then why not put that much more thought into a name? What you name your handsome little boy will stick around for your child's life and will be heard each and every day.

What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions, making him irrepressibly friendly, indiscriminately trusting, and unconditionally loving toward everyone he meets. It also makes him enormously vulnerable. Eli lacks the innate skepticism that will help his peers navigate adolescence more safely - and vastly more successfully.

¿Estás cansado de ser el tipo “agradable” que siempre queda en la zona de amigos? Es hora de transformar tu vida y convertirte en el chico malo irresistible que las mujeres no pueden ignorar. Este libro revela las estrategias provocativas que te ayudarán a proyectar confianza, magnetismo y ese aire de misterio que las hace desearte. No es magia, es estrategia, y puedes dominarla.

Growing Up Great is a body-positive guide to getting through puberty confidently by respecting the body and all of its changes. From how to handle the physical rollercoaster to coping with out-of-whack feelings, this book has your teen’s back - so they can focus on all of the good stuff ahead. When it comes to puberty books for boys, this one has it all.

Browne believes all children are gifted. These gifts have merely been either stifled or exploited by society over the centuries. The gifts usually appear at very tender ages; they are, in Browne's view, special blessings from God. The respected New York Times best-selling psychic shares profound stories of how children can be channels to the Other Side.

Dear Diary Boy is an intensely personal, heartwarming, and heartbreaking chronicle of one mother and child's experience in a prestigious private Tokyo school. It's a tale that will resonate with all parents as we try to answer the age-old questions of how best to educate our children and what, truly, is in their best interests versus what is in our own.

¿Estás criando a un niño con TDAH que tiene dificultades para concentrarse, seguir las normas o regular sus emociones? Lo que necesita es una guía completa llena de actividades adaptadas al TDAH, técnicas de control del estrés y habilidades de crianza positiva para reducir las luchas de poder y mejorar la cooperación. En este libro encontrarás soluciones prácticas para chicos de entre 3 y 17 años.

Robert Ragland toiled every day on his family’s Appalachian tobacco farm as a young boy. His father, an impoverished and illiterate sharecropper, spent his earnings on alcohol and beat his children and wife constantly. And Robert couldn’t take one more strike. Meanwhile, Mennonite families had moved to town, providing food and comfort when Robert’s mother broke her leg. Witnessing compassion from these people, Robert wondered: What would it feel like to belong to a group where I was wanted, loved, and appreciated?

In 1954, a group of boys attended a remote summer camp in Oklahoma. There they were split into two groups and encouraged to bully, harass and demonise each other. The results would make history as one of social psychology’s classic studies: the Robbers Cave experiment. Conducted at the height of the Cold War, the experiment officially had a happy ending: the boys reconciled, and psychologist Muzafer Sherif demonstrated that while hatred and violence are powerful forces, so, too, are cooperation and harmony.

In this book, listeners will not only learn the “secrets” of serenity, contentment, healthy values, mission-focused aspirations, and healthy living, but they will also be empowered to learn the formula that these two boys used repeatedly to achieve success in all their endeavors through joyful determination, undefeatable motivation, and inspiration to better themselves.

Dealing with the extra concerns that come with ADHD can be challenging. As a mother, you may be putting your self-care on the back burner. I would know. I’ve been there, and I understand. There will be times when worry takes over and you find yourself drowning in self-doubt and overwhelm. You’ll feel judged by others and bombarded with parenting advice. Your relationships will become strained, leaving you feeling isolated and alone.

This book contained carefully developed steps to help you grow stronger in that toxic relationship and develop the courage to stop loving that person who isn’t reciprocating. All you need to do is consciously follow the eight tested stages to overcome whatever feelings that hold you down and make you cry. After six weeks, you will come out and say it confidently that you have gotten over him.

An honest and candid look at dating from a matchmaker's perspective. Ladies, listen up! If you want to find love, then stop your bad habits now. This book is a candid, funny, and truthful account of the things we have all done when it comes to dating. You will see yourself in many of the bitches in this book, and perhaps it will be a wake-up call for you to take action, so you can Stop Being a Bitch and Get a Boyfriend.

Warm and fuzzy, anchored in values, and filled with simple words of wisdom, this beloved, best-selling book for parents speaks to the important business of raising sons, and distills their timeless lessons into nuggets of wisdom - some lighthearted, some serious, some practical, and some intangible, and all supported by a strong moral backbone.

Navigate the path of raising emotionally strong and secure boys from day one, even if the concept of fatherhood has you quaking in your boots!

Josiah was 19 with the world at his feet when things changed. Without warning, the new university student's mental health deteriorated to the point that he planned his own death. His mother, bestselling author Amanda Prowse, found herself grappling for ways to help him, with no clear sense of where that could be found. This is the book they wish had been there for them during those dark times.