Raising Cain : protecting the emotional life of boys / Dan Kindlon, Michael Thompson with Teresa Barker.
By: Kindlon, Daniel J. (Daniel James).
Contributor(s): Thompson, Michael | Barker, Teresa.
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2000Description: xix, 298 p. ; 21 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0345434854.Subject(s): Boys -- Psychology | Emotions in children | Emotions in adolescence | Sex role in children | MasculinityDDC classification: 305.31Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 305.31 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00091758 | ||
General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 305.31 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00091759 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country's leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a nation of boys who are hurting--sad, afraid, angry, and silent. Kindlon and Thompson set out to answer this basic, crucial question: What do boys need that they're not getting? They illuminate the forces that threaten our boys, teaching them to believe that "cool" equals macho strength and stoicism. Cutting through outdated theories of "mother blame," "boy biology," and "testosterone," the authors shed light on the destructive emotional training our boys receive--the emotional miseducation of boys.
Kindlon and Thompson make a compelling case that emotional literacy is the most valuable gift we can offer our sons, urging parents to recognize the price boys pay when we hold them to an impossible standard of manhood. They identify the social and emotional challenges that boys encounter in school and show how parents can help boys cultivate emotional awareness and empathy--giving them the vital connections and support they need to navigate the social pressures of youth.
Originally published: 1999. With new pref. and reader's companion.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-287).
The road not taken: turning boys away from their inner life -- Thorns among roses: the struggle of young boys in early education -- The high cost of harsh discipline -- The culture of cruelty -- Fathers and sons: a legacy of desire and distance -- Mothers and sons: a story of connection and change -- Inside the fortress of solitude -- Boys' struggle with depression and suicide -- Drinking and drugs: filling the emotional void -- Romancing the stone: from heartfelt to heartless relations with girls -- Anger and violence -- What boys need.
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Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., a member of the Harvard University faculty for the past fifteen years, teaches child psychology and conducts research in child development. A leading researcher, Dr. Kindlon has a private psychotherapy practice specializing in boys and their families, and for the past ten years he has been the psychological consultant to an independent school for boys in Boston.Michael Thompson, Ph.D., is a preeminent child psychologist who lectures widely on topics pertaining to the development of boys and also conducts problem-solving workshops with parents, teachers, and students around the country. A highly sought-after consultant to schools, Dr. Thompson is currently the staff psychologist of an all-boys independent school in the Boston area. The coauthor with Edward Hallowell, M.D., of Finding the Heart of the Child, Dr. Thompson has worked for more than fifteen years as a child and family therapist.