Raising Boys - Steve Biddulph

Raising Boys - Steve Biddulph: Raising Boys (Or Trying!) (534 words)
by jillmurphy - written on 05.08.00 (Very useful, 202 readings)
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I never really thought about whether I wanted boys or girls before I had children. ‘As long as they’re healthy…….’, I thought, like countless parents before me. If pressed on the subject I would probably have retorted that the idea of ‘gender behaviour’ is largely cultural and that any children I had would certainly not be stereotypical ‘girlies’ or ‘lads’. I had two boys and nowadays I look back at that childless person and think ‘What on earth did she know?’. Conor and Kieran, like many small boys, have an obsessional interest in all things militaria, if clothes aren’t ...

Helping Boys to Flourish Lovingly (2388 words)
by librelola - written on 09.10.05 (Very useful, 320 readings)
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When a woman becomes pregnant, most of her friends and family and sometimes even complete strangers suddenly develop oracle virtues. This happened to me as well; everyone started making "tests" one me to see whether I would have a boy or a girl. Different cultures (and I have friends from all over the place) tend to have different ways of divining whether you are carrying a child of the male or female sex. If your tummy is too high, it's a boy, if you twist your hand like this, it's a girl, if you become ugly (only the mother will dare admit this), it's a girl (apparently, they steal your beauty - if you have one), if you want to eat sweets, it's a ...

Raising Boys - Steve Biddulph: Boys will be boys (419 words)
by kca101 - written on 02.10.00 (Very useful, 156 readings)
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Rarely have I read a book as quickly as this one, but rarely has a book been so easy to access. Steve Biddulph doesn’t mess about with fancy words, he writes in a very conversational way that is easy to read. As the title suggests, it is a book about raising boys, and Steve goes to great lengths to describe why boys are different to girls - and I must admit to recognising some of my own traits from when I was younger. Taking this as a starting point he then describes the stages that boys go through when they grow up and what they are looking for in parents and peers. One point that comes through clearly is that many problems relating to boys ...