Bringing Up Boys We were very pleased with our book. It was in great condition. We got it in quickly as well! Thanks for your service!
A must read for conservative parents This book offers great practical and biblical advices on how to raise a boy. If you are liberal parents, you are not going to like what he says. We are conservative Christian who are determined to raise our children with the right /godly values and appropriate discipline with unconditional love. This book is what I need.
Review for "Bringing Up Boys" by James Dobson I'm not completely finished reading this book yet, but it has had some good information about boys. I do think Dr. Dobson spends a too much time on the feminist movement of the 70s and how it has impacted boys/men. He seems to go on and on about this rather than focusing on how to best raise our boys. As I said, I'm not done with the book, but got a little disinterested and set it aside because of the above.
if you have no other resource.... I read this about 5 years ago (or so). I have 5 kids- 2 boys and I run a boys club at our kids school (club is for boys ages 5-15). This book lacks a lot. It's really just poorly named. It should be entitled, "Being a parent in today's world," or something like that. I can't say what other book I would recommend, but I'll just say that this book didn't offer much real substance on HOW to bring up boys. How do you deal with boys of different temperments? How do you teach different virtues to... more info