01962cam a2200313 4500 551166880 TxAuBib 20220315120000.0 090723s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009280037 9780345513694 pbk. 034551369X pbk. TxAuBib Meeker, Margaret J.,. Boys Should Be Boys : 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons / Meg Meeker. Seven secrets to raising healthy sons. Trade paperback edition. New York : Ballantine Books, 2009. 287 pages ; 21 cm. Originally published: Washington, DC : Regnery Pub., c2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-264) and index. The seven secrets to raising healthy boys -- Boyhood under siege -- Bucking peer pressure -- Bullfrogs and racecars -- Electronic matters -- Does testosterone drive cars? -- Encouragement, mastery, and competition -- A mother's son -- The difference a dad makes -- The forgotten step from boyhood to manhood -- The God factor -- How then shall we teach them to live? -- Ten tips for making sure you get it right. Helps parents restore the delights of boyhood and enable today's boys to become the mature, confident, and thoughtful men of tomorrow. Boys will always be boys-rambunctious, adventurous, and curious, climbing trees, building forts, playing tackle football, and pushing their growing bodies to the limit as part of the rite of passage into manhood. But today our sons face an increasingly hostile world that doesn't value the high-spirited, magical nature of boys. 20220315. Boys Juvenile literature. Teenage boys Juvenile literature. Parenting Juvenile literature. Child rearing Juvenile literature.