Raising a Son, Don Elium
Raising a Son, Don Elium
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Raising a Son
Parents and the Making of a Healthy Man

Author: Don Elium, Jeanne Elium

Narrator: Don Elium, Jeanne Elium

Abridged: 3 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/01/1994

Synopsis

Boys pose special challenges as they struggle to define themselves and find their place in the world. In this sensible and straightforward guide, Don and Jeanne Elium explain boy-specific basics as they relate precisely to both mother and father. This guide answers your questions about male aggression, hostility, and violence, as well as morality, sexuality, hypersensitivity, ADD, the right role models, the “ boy code,” and more. With help from this guide, embrace the challenges— and the joys— of raising a boy with compassion, commitment, patience, and humor, from infancy to young adulthood.

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Goodreads review by Colleen

Raising a Son addresses specifically the needs of males in our society and their physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing in each developmental phases.......more

Goodreads review by Kasey

The beginning is the best part of the book, but the info is pretty basic nothing ground breaking. Then it just repeats concepts over and over and over and over. It also talks about a lot concepts that could be construed as Judeo-Christian and seemingly the author is in denial by asserting stuff like......more

Goodreads review by Erin

I read this book slowly, over the course of several months, and although I appreciated what the authors had to say, I think I would have been better off had I read it faster. Much of what the book covers is really Parenting 101, just targeted to boys, so it wasn't all that revelatory to me personall......more

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