Great product!</br></br>Product Description</br></br>In Raising Cain?? Dan Kindlon?? Ph.D.?? and Michael Thompson?? Ph.D.?? two of the country's leading child psychologists?? share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a nation of boys who are hurting--sad?? afraid?? angry?? and silent. Kindlon and Thompson set out to answer this basic?? crucial question: What do boys need that they're not getting? They illuminate the forces that threaten our boys?? teaching them to believe that "s macho strength and stoicism. Cutting through outdated theories of "mother blame??""boy biology??"and "testosterone??"the authors shed light on the destructive emotional training our boys receive--the emotional miseducation of boys.<br><br>Kindlon and Thompson make a compelling case that emotional literacy is the most valuable gift we can offer our sons?? urging parents to recognize the price boys pay when we hold them to an impossible stan"rd of manhood. They identify the social and emotional challenges that boys encounter in school and show how parents can help boys cultivate emotional awareness and empathy--giving them the vital connections and support they need to navigate the social pressures of youth.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><i>Reviving Ophelia</i>?? Mary Pipher's groundbreaking book?? exposed the toxic environment faced by adolescent girls in our society. Now?? from the same publisher?? comes <i>Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys</i> by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson?? which does the same for adolescent boys. Boys suffer from a too-narrow definition of masculinity?? the authors assert as they expose and discuss the relationship between vulnerability and developing sexuality?? the " of cruelty" boys live in?? the "yranny of toughness??"the disadvantages of being a boy in elementary school?? how boys' emotional lives are squelched?? and what we?? as a society?? can do about all this without turning " into girls." "Our premise is that boys will be better off if boys are better unde