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It's a Boy!: Understanding Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18

by: Michael Phd Thompson, Teresa Barker

: It's a Boy!: Understanding Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.231081
EAN: 9780345493958
ISBN: 0345493958
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: March 25, 2008
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Sales Rank: 20838
Studio: Ballantine Books



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From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain, It’s a Boy! is the first major parenting book to chart every stage of a boy’s life. This upbeat, authoritative, and reassuring guide–written by psychologist Michael Thompson, Ph.D., a leading international expert on boys’ development, and journalist Teresa H. Barker–shows how a boy’s inner life progresses through infancy, childhood, and adolescence.

What do boys actually need? How exactly does a healthy boy look and act? It’s a Boy! has the answers, providing expert advice on the developmental, psychological, social, and academic life of boys from infancy through the teen years. Exploring the many ways in which boys strive for masculinity and attempt to define themselves, Dr. Thompson identifies the key developmental transitions that mark a boy’s psychological growth and emotional health, and the challenges both boys and parents face at each age.

• Expecting a Boy: how our deeply held hopes, fears, and family histories shape our expectations of boys and our parenting techniques
• Baby Boys (birth to 18 months): falling in love with your son, healthy attachment, trust, and temperament
• Toddler Years (18 months to 3 years): boys on the go, bold steps, blankies, budding language, and rambunctious physicality
• Powerful Little Boys (ages 3 and 4): superhero ambitions, penis play and potty talk, learning to manage the force of his anger, and celebrating the power of the boy group
• Starting School (ages 5 through 7): developmental cues for school readiness, transitional challenges, girl cooties and boys-only play, tough talk, tender hearts, and first friends
• Boys on a Mission (ages 8 through 10): striving for mastery in sports, screen games, and boy society, organizing the boy brain for school success, and glaring academic gender gaps
• The Preteen (ages 11 through 13): puberty, posturing and popularity, the culture of cruelty, hidden sensitivity, and stoic silence in the middle school years
• Early High School (ages 14 and 15): the secret life of boys, powerful peer groups, sexuality, school strategies, the shift away from Mom (she knows too much), and yearning for Dad’s respect and attention
• On the Brink of Manhood (ages 16 through 18): the quest for independence, sex, love, driving, drinking, and other choices and challenges of life

Practical, insightful, wonderfully engaging, and filled with instructive true stories any parent of a son will recognize, It’s a Boy! is the definitive guide to raising boys in today’s world, revealing with humor, compassion, and joy all the infinite varieties of boys and the deep and profound ways in which we love them.




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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - sigh of relief...
A quick review to state how this book has helped my mind.
We have an almost 3 year old boy. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Oh Boy
I am very much enjoying this book. It has helped me understand my son and my husband better.


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - The book is just okay
I felt that the book was geered for parents with only "stereo-typical" boys, which I do not have. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - its a boy
A real value for money purchase. The book arrived on time , in excellent condition. The book is interesting ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Eye Opening!!!
I have 3 kids, almost 4 yd girl, 2 and 1/2 yd boy and 1 yd boy. Like most of women, it's easy to understand ... Read More

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