Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys - Hardcover

Kindlon, Daniel J.; Thompson, Michael; Kindion, Dan; Barker, Teresa

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ISBN 10: 0345424573 ISBN 13: 9780345424570

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1999

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Book by Dan Kindlon Michael Thompson Teresa Barker

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The groundbreaking bestselling guide to raising emotionally healthy boys shows parents how to avoid the violence, addiction, and sexual excess that plagues many young men when they reach their teens. Reprint.

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success of Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher's landmark book, showed a true and pressing need to address the emotional lives of girls. Now, finally, here is the book that answers our equally timely and critical need to understand our boys.

In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country's leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a nation of boys who are hurting--sad, afraid, angry, and silent. Statistics point to an alarming number of young boys at high risk for suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, violence and loneliness. Kindlon and Thompson set out to answer this basic, crucial question: What do boys need that they're not getting? They illuminate the forces that threaten our boys, teaching them to believe that "cool" equals macho strength and stoicism. Cutting through outdated theories of "mother blame," "boy bio

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0345424573
• ISBN 13: 9780345424570
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384