Raising Boys - Steve Biddulph Reviews

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I found this book very interesting and helpful to help me understand my three boys. As a single mum with no brothers, I have often wondered why boys are so different to girls in many ways. This book has helped me to understand why my boys are not interested in pencil and paper activitetes, reading etc and why they are always on the go. ...