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From Boys to Men: Guiding our Teen Boys to Grow into Happy, Healthy Men by Maggie Dent
$40.00 NZD
Category: Specifically for Boys
For boys, adolescence can be a confusing minefield and parents can be bewildered as how to best guide their precious sons. Many parents wake one day to find that their beautiful little boys have grown into silent, withdrawn, sometimes angry and often unmotivated tweens and teens. Well-known Australian ...Show more
Revolution of Man by Phillip Barker
$33.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
The performance of being a man, from the moment we open our eyes, until we gasp our last breath, is damaging us, and those around us. Phil Barker has written thousands of words about being a man in these strange and terrible times. As a journalist, he has spent years investigating the modern epidemics ...Show more
21st Century Boys: How Modern Life Can Drive Them Off the Rails and How to Get Them Back on Track by Sue Palmer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Specifically for Boys
What's happening to boys? At home, they sprawl before a flickering screen, lost in a solitary, sedentary fantasy world; at school, the choice of role seems limited to nerd or thug, bullied or bullying. By the time they reach their teens, the chances of depression, self-harm, drug or alcohol abuse grow e ...Show more
The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Find Meaning, Significance, and Direction in Their Lives by Michael Gurian
$30.00 NZD
Category: Specifically for Boys
In this climax to his series of landmark boys books, including Wonder of Boys and Minds of Boys, Michael Gurian presents parentswith a new way of looking at their sons by• Realizing how important PURPOSE is for the success and happiness of their boys.• Understanding how a boy's core personality, nature, ...Show more
Raising & Praising Boys by Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer
$25.00 NZD
Category: Specifically for Boys
One of the biggest lessons we have learnt in the last few decades is that it is valuable, important and effective to praise children. Children respond much better to encouragement than they do to punishment, which is why praising them is considered fundamental in helping them develop self-esteem and str ...Show more
Sons to Men: A Mother's Guide by Anne Harvey
$36.00 NZD
Category: Specifically for Boys
Struggling to cope with an emotionally charged minefield as your son becomes a man? Do you sometimes wonder if you'll both come out alive? In Sons to Men, Anne Harvey offers a practical guide for mothers as their sons enter adolescence. While many other books concentrate on teenage boys' propensity to m ...Show more
Boys of Few Words by Adam J. Cox
$35.00 NZD
Category: Specifically for Boys
When parents feel separated from their sons by a curtain of silence or a wall of resistance, they're right to be concerned. Boys of few words - the ones who limit their expression to a timid shrug or an indifferent grunt - need our help. Whether the problem is rooted in "nature" or "nurture", boys who g ...Show more
Our Boys: Raising Strong, Happy Sons from Boyhood to Manhood by Richard Aston
$37.00 NZD
Category: Specifically for Boys
THE GO-TO MANUAL FOR RAISING BOYS..Accessible, helpful advice for parents bringing up boys of any age...Our Boys is a positive, practical, down-to-earth guide that outlines what makes boys tick, describes their development from babyhood to childhood to manhood, and is full of great ideas and suggestions ...Show more
Educating Boys: Helping Our Boys to Succeed at School by Michael Irwin
$38.00 NZD
Category: Specifically for Boys
According to the media and some concerned parents, boys are having greater trouble than ever with schooling. This book takes the refreshing counter position that boys are generally fine, and not inherently toxic creatures that need 'fixing'. What does need fixing, however, are some of the parenting and ...Show more
Raising Boys without Men : How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men by Peggy F. Drexler
$35.00 NZD
Category: Specifically for Boys
As the number of single-mum and two-mum households has grown, so have concerns about the possible damage caused by the lack of a stable male role model in the house. Determined to find the truth, research psychologist Peggy Drexler embarked on a long-term study comparing boys raised in non-traditional f ...Show more
Mothers Raising Sons: What Every Mother Needs To Know To Save Her Sanity by Nigel Latta
$30.00 NZD
Category: Specifically for Boys
Why are boys so noisy? Why do they run around all the time and break things? Why can't they focus on important things like eating vegetables and tidying up? Why do they leave everything to the last minute? Why are they so messy, and why doesn't it bother them? Why are they fascinated with things that ca ...Show more
Growing Great Boys: 100s of Practical Strategies for Bringing Out the Best in Your Son by Ian Grant
$39.00 NZD
Category: Specifically for Boys
Practical, positive and informative parenting advice on raising great sons. Growing Great Boys is a brilliant, practical parenting book about parenting boys from toddlers to teens by one of New Zealand's leading parenting experts. Packed with tips and pragmatic ideas for parents, it has a strong and pos ...Show more
