Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys Books
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In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the people’s leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more then thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a nation of boys who are hurting-sad, worried, mad, and silent. Statistics top to an alarming number of young boys at high risk for suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, violence, and being alone. Kindlon and Thompson set out to resolution this basic, crucial question: What do boys need that they are not getting? They illuminate the forces that threaten our boys, teaching them to judge that “cool” equals macho strength and stoicism. Cold through outdated theories of “mother blame,” “boy biology,” and “testosterone,” Kindlon and Thompson shed light on the destructive emotional training our boys receive-the emotional miseducation of boys.
Through tender case studies and cold-edge research, Raising Cain paints a portrait of boys systematically steered away from their emotional lives by adults and the peer “culture of cruelty”-boys who receive small encouragement to develop qualities such as compassion, sensitivity, and warmth. The excellent news is that this doesn’t have to happen. There is much we can do to preclude it.
Powerfully written and deeply felt, Raising Cain will forever exchange the way we see our sons and will transform the way we help them to become pleased fulfilled young men.
Amazon.com Review
Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher’s groundbreaking book, exposed the toxic environment faced by youthful girls in our society. Now, from the same publisher, comes Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson, which does the same for youthful boys. Boys suffer from a too-narrow definition of masculinity, the authors assert as they expose and discuss the relationship between vulnerability and developing sexuality, the “culture of cruelty” boys live in, the “tyranny of toughness,” the disadvantages of being a boy in elementary school, how boys’ emotional lives are squelched, and what we, as a society, can do about all this without turning “boys into girls.” “Our premise is that boys will be better off if boys are better understood–and if they are encouraged to become more emotionally literate,” the authors assert. As a tool for exchange, Kindlon and Thompsom bestow the well-developed “What Boys Need,” seven points that reach far beyond the run of the mill psychobabble checklist and slogan list. Kindlon (researcher and psychology professor at Harvard and involved shrink specializing in boys) and Thompson (child psychologist, workshop chief, and staff psychologist of an all-boys school) have made a alarming portrait of male adolescence in America. Through private tales and theoretical discussion, this well-needed book plumbs the well of sadness, rage, and dread in America’s teenage sons. –Ericka Lutz
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Boys need fixed and severe discipline to grow into real men. Unlike girls, boys have to be tamed because they all have small inner savages coming up to emerge and ruin the world.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is not quite what I expected. I was to some extent disappointed in the content.
Rating: 2 / 5
I ordered this book tape from Prairie Books and the first tape had no book tape on it. I had to ship it back immediately.
Rating: 1 / 5
THis is classic 70′ and 80’s pshychobabble written by men who wish they were women or in the least reckon that if they say what women want them to reckon they will be loved by them. Reeking of PC misinformation – Really people – quit reading this junk and just go out and spend time with your son (or daughter)!! I cant tell you how many women spend hours and hours reading these books trying to ‘know’ the men and boys in their lives – you know what – you would learn a lot more by just getting caught up in what they are doing –
Rating: 2 / 5
Largely anecdotal, this book does small to enlighten regarding the problems small boys really face and, more significantly, how to solve them. I am even more troubled by the “namby pamby” approach–they are small boys, not small girls, after all.
Rating: 2 / 5