An essential and easy-to-follow guide to bringing up boys from pre-school years through to the challenging teenage ones. The author’s straightforward common-sense approach to bringing up boys – handling the challenges as well as the successes - will help give confidence as a parent and encourage you to take a hands-on approach to coaching your son to succeed in life.
If you also have a girl or girls, then you should also take a look at Ian Grant’s Raising Confident Girls.
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Praise for this title: ‘Grant’s knowledge and authority is tempered with grandfatherly love as he delivers a message of unconditional affirmation for boys’ - Junior
Shows how to work with the essential character of boys using understanding and emotional support to raise passionate, hard-working, sensitive, funny, fearless and strong men. This book contains chapters on the roles of mums and dads, and on the special challenges faced by single parents.
Ian Grant is one of New Zealand's best-known parenting experts. With
his wife Mary, he runs Parents Inc., which hosts parenting seminars
and programmes. Married for 42 years, they have three adult children,
five grandsons and three granddaughters.