Product Description

A word of mouth bestseller which has become one of the best loved and most successful books in the parenting field from Australian writer and lecturer Steve Biddulph, who's been called 'a mixture of Billy Connelly and Dr Spock' by The Times. Boys need to be parented in a different way from girls with their own very special psychological and physical make-up. Home, society and education have failed boys badly -- and these failures lead to unhappy men who cannot fully become happy, responsible, emotionally-confident adults. It is essential that boys spend more time learning about manhood from their fathers. And through the teen years a boy ideally needs a male mentor outside his immediate family to teach him the best way to live. Without these things boys can turn to alcohol, drugs and despair and fail to grow up into feeling, responsible adults. A book which gives good advice on: the stages of boyhood; how a mother teaches about life and love; how schools need to change to be made a good place for boys; testosterone and how it changes behaviour; how to be a good father; how to teach boys to have a caring attitude to girls and about sex.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #559 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
'a mix of Billy Connelly and Dr Spock ! Steve Biddulph is a publishing phenomenon.' The Times 'Steve's advice is easy to follow -- and more importantly, it works.' BBC Family Life Magazine

The Guardian
'Britain's number one childcare guru'

From the Publisher
Biddulph was named ‘the child with the man in his eyes’ by an article in the Independent, describing his almost uncanny ability of understanding what is going on in the minds of children.