Raising Emotionally Healthy Boys (eBook)

Michael Reist (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
200 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3141-7 (ISBN)

Infos

As society redefines our ideas of masculinity, the lessons we teach our children are lagging behind. It's become commonplace to think of men as "closed off," while women are often expected to show a broader range of emotional expression. Parents need to have a serious conversation about this, for the sake of our boys and the men they will become.

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Raising emotionally healthy children is not just about what we need to do, but what we need to avoid doing.

We all know that repressing our feelings can be damaging, and that emotional repression is an especially prevalent issue among males. From a very young age, boys are socialized to hide their emotions. Girls, on the other hand, are encouraged to learn a much broader range of emotional expression. The long-term repercussions of this imbalance are profound.
Many of the problems we face, both as a society and as a species, are directly affected by how we raise our boys. We are all products of nature and nurture combined. The conscious and unconscious lessons we give our children often enhance and improve their human natures, but can sometimes degrade them, too.
As we come to the end of thousands of years of patriarchy, we are being challenged to redefine masculinity. Our boys are lucky to be living in such a time, and luckier when they have adults in their lives who are aware of how their minds function and what they need. If we want to raise men who are strong, confident, and whole in the best sense of these words, then parents around the world urgently need a conversation about what we teach — and don’t teach — our boys.

Autor

Michael Reist is an educator with over thirty years of experience in the classroom. His best-selling book, Raising Boys in a New Kind of World, has helped countless parents understand their sons better. A nationally acclaimed speaker, he is passionate about the needs of children and parents. He lives in Caledon East, Ontario.

Inhalt

Part 1: Where Do I Start?
1.What is Emotional Health?
2.Emotional Health Starts With the Adults in a Child’s Life
3.What Kind of Men Do We Want Our Boys to Be?
4.Raise Emotionally Healthy Boys and Change the World
Part 2: What Do Boys Need?
5.The Need to be Seen
6.The Narcissistic Wound
7.Making it up as we go along
8.Dare to be Different
9.The Need to be Listened to
10.Fast Talk, Slow Talk
11.Non-verbal Communication
12.Parental Stress and Anxiety
13.The Sensual Child
14.The Strong-Willed Child
15.Screen Time
16.Hyper-focusing
17.Why do boys like video games so much and is there any alternative?
18.The benefits of video games
19.The Denial of Boy Energy: Why Boys Don’t Take Ballet
20.Should Boys Play With Guns?
21.Boys and Their Role-Models
22.Four Wars: How We Lost Our Elders
23.Seeing Ourselves in Our Children
24.Using Children to Satisfy Our Unmet Emotional Needs
25.Boundaries: Freedom within Structure
26.Self-monitoring
27.Self-regulation
28.Should I Praise My Child?
29.Boys’ Bodies
30.Play
31.Nature
32.Having Fun
33.Family Time
34.Media
35.Toxic peers
36.Dysfunctional environments
37.The Need for a New Kind of Religion
Part 3: When Boys Have Problems
38.Addictive Personality
39.The Risk-Taker
40.Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
41.Anxiety
42.Lack of Motivation
43.School Avoidance
44.Defiance
45.Sibling Rivalry
46.Depression (exercise)
47.Learning Disabilities/Learning Differences
48.ADD/ADHD
49.The Clingy Child (separation anxiety)
50.High Sensitivity
51.Introversion/Extroversion
52.Bullying
53.The Don’t Freak Out Rule
54.When Boys Don’t Talk
55.How Boys Express Their Emotions

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.7.2015
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Schlagworte: absent father • Bisexual • Boys • children • Discipline • Emotional Health • Emotions • Fathers • gay • Gender • gender roles • Gender Studies • Homosexuality • Male Identity • Masculinity • Men • Mental Health • Mothers • parenting • Pornography • puberty • relationships • screen time • sex roles • Sexual Abuse • single mother • single parent • Sons • Technology • transgendered • video games
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-3141-7 / 1459731417
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3141-7 / 9781459731417