Bringing up a Boy: How to Understand and Care for Boys

'Newberger is a wise and thoughtful writer. His advice is illuminating and thought-provoking. Anyone who has a young son or a nephew and wants to know what makes them tick could do much worse than leaf through the pages of this book.' YORKSHIRE POST How should we bring up boys? How can we understand and get on better with them? Eli H. Newberger is one of America's most distinguished paediatricians and experts on family development, and brings decades of experience and insight to these vitally important questions. In BRINGING UP BOYS he shows us how to nurture, encourage and celebrate the best in our sons and presents an agenda for action that every parent should read and use. Includes: *How to be a better parent - down-to-earth and easy-to-follow advice * Is there a male character? How it differs from that of girls * How to talk to boys - and why reading to them is all-important * How to give boys the vocabulary to let out their feelings from an early age * How to set limits * Crying and tantrums - how to deal with them * Sex, aggression and testosterone - how to navigate the troubled adolescent years