Publisher Description
“At this very moment, through no fault of their own, our boys are caught in the vortex of four powerful, insidious, often invisible forces which conspire to rob them of their future.” We medicate, discipline, suspend and expel our boys from school at quadruple the rate of girls. We let double the number of boys drop out of high school than girls, and of those boys who do graduate, they are far more likely than their sisters to be illiterate, to fail to go to college, or to drop out of college if they do go SWAGGER is a wakeup call for parents about the real world our boys inhabit right now, but it offers solutions as well. From how to teach your boy humility (the swagger anti-venom), to “making your home a reading mecca,” creating an expectation of college graduation, and how to teach your boy to be critical of the media onslaught in his life, this book is also packed with research-proven, parent-tested, teacher-approved practical solutions, delivered in the author’s trademark no-nonsense, often humorous, take-charge voice. “
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“I didn’t learn any new tips in this book, and nothing was necessarily earth shattering, however it did bring together in one place a lot of research on how boys are faring in our society. Lisa Bloom is a down to earth, intelligent woman and mother and this book read very much like she talks – easy to understand with a fair amount of humor thrown in, and with an important underlying message. My mother in law pretty much insisted that I read it, and I’m glad I did. None of the pitfalls for our boys are really anything new, and the advice given isn’t reinventing the wheel. But it was a very good overall synopsis of some steps to take to help ensure our sons’ success in life.”
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Allison (4 out of 5 stars)
