A new how-to manual for parents of tweens and teens is an expert guide in how to connect with boys while tackling some tricky subjects
Like all teens, boys have big feelings – encourage them to feel the feelings. Image: Getty
Boys, boys, boys – so much easier than girls. More straightforward, less emotional. Altogether simpler. Apart from when they act out, but that’s OK, because boys will be boys. They barely need any parenting at all, other than a reminder not to get anyone pregnant – right?
“Here’s the reality,” write Joanna Schroeder and Christopher Pepper in their new book, Talk To Your Boys, a how-to manual for the parents of tweens and teens. “This laissez-faire approach to raising boys isn’t working. An increasing number of boys say they feel lonely and isolated.”