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Thank you for posting this!
One of the books, "Real Boys" by William Pollack, is one that I highly recommend to mothers of boys, just as mothers of girls should read "Reviving Ophelia. Actually, all parents should read BOTH of these books! I read Real Boys for one of my education courses on college, and it was so enlightening. It really gave me so many 'a ha!' moments. It is so sad the way we (and I mean the general 'we' of society) socialize boys to suppress their emotions in order to be tough. Women, too, are socialized to believe that men shouldn't cry, for example, but then complain that men aren't sensitive.
One of my favorite teachers once said "teachers teach as they are taught unless there is serious intervention otherwise". I think that is often true of parents as well.
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~Heather
Mama to my two sweet boys Carter (10!) and Owen (3),
and my sweet girl Leah Charlotte, born 12/10/03
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