3 Books on Gender Issues with Kids: Odd Girl Out, Real Boys & Why Gender Matters

Description: This Auction is for Three Books on Gender-Related Issues with Kids: Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences by Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.Are boys and girls really that different? Twenty years ago, doctors and researchers didn’t think so. Back then, most experts believed that differences in how girls and boys behave are mainly due to differences in how they were treated by their parents, teachers, and friends.It's hard to cling to that belief today. An avalanche of research over the past twenty years has shown that sex differences are more significant and profound than anybody guessed. Sex differences are real, biologically programmed, and important to how children are raised, disciplined, and educated.In Why Gender Matters, psychologist and family physician Dr. Leonard Sax leads parents through the mystifying world of gender differences by explaining the biologically different ways in which children think, feel, and act. He addresses a host of issues, including discipline, learning, risk taking, aggression, sex, and drugs, and shows how boys and girls react in predictable ways to different situations.Dr. Sax offers fresh approaches to disciplining children, as well as gender-specific ways to help girls and boys avoid drugs and early sexual activity. He wants parents to understand and work with hardwired differences in children, but he also encourages them to push beyond gender-based stereotypes.A leading proponent of single-sex education, Dr. Sax points out specific instances where keeping boys and girls separate in the classroom has yielded striking educational, social, and interpersonal benefits. Despite the view of many educators and experts on child-rearing that sex differences should be ignored or overcome, parents and teachers would do better to recognize, understand, and make use of the biological differences that make a girl a girl, and a boy a boy. 9780767916257 Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel SimmonsEducator and bullying expert Rachel Simmons gives girls, parents, and educators proven and innovative strategies for navigating social dynamics in person and online, as well as brand new classroom initiatives and step-by-step parental suggestions for dealing with conventional bullying. With up-to-the-minute research and real-life stories, Odd Girl Out continues to be the definitive resource on the most pressing social issues facing girls today. 9780156027342 Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons From the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack, Ph.D.Boys today are in crisis. On the surface, many boys may appear tough, confident, and cheerful, but underneath, many of them are sad,lonely, and confused. As the bestselling Reviving Ophelia took us into the worlds of girls, this groundbreaking book reveals the worlds ofboys to show how society's mixed messages to boys put more of them at risk today than ever before. Boys' voices and experiences rise upfrom these pages as Dr. William Pollack of the Harvard Medical School draws on almost two decades of work with boys as well as on a recentstudy called "Listening to Boys' Voices" to present new findings about the true nature of boys and new insights into how to raise them tobecome happier, more confident, more successful men. "I get a little down," says Adam,"but I hide it very well. I'd say I wear a mask of some sort. Even when kids call me names or try to taunt me,I'd never show them how much it was crushing me inside. I'd keep it all in." Pollack reveals how many boys today are like Adam, whose confident exterior hides painful feelings of loneliness and isolation.Other boys are in trouble overtly--depressed, suicidal, doing less well at school than they could, having trouble with drugs or with friends.Real Boys shows why, and what to do about it. Pollack describes how outdated gender stereotypes push boys to conform to society's inhibitingBoy Code, even as boys are pressured to relate to girls in new ways. Boys conceal themselves behind a mask of independence, which not onlyprevents them from truly knowing themselves but makes it difficult for us to know them. Conventional expectations about masculinity stillencourage people to treat boys like "little men," and to raise them through a toughening process. Illuminating the daily lives of boys of all ages,Real Boys lets us know what boys are really like, revealing new findings about the expressive nature of boys, how they are different from girls andhow they are similar to them, and what they are thinking and feeling. Pollack addresses a wide range of topics--boys and their mothers, fathers, friends; boys in school, sports, and adolescence; how boys candevelop more self-confidence, and the emotional savvy they need to deal with issues they may have to confront--such as depression, love andsexuality, drugs and alcohol, divorce, violence. After you read this original and insightful book, you will see every boy you know in an entirely new way.Based on new research into the inner worlds and daily lives of boys today, Real Boys explores in depth the following:¸ The loneliness of "normal" boys today--what we do to cause it, and what we can do to prevent it¸ Low self-esteem--why more boys today are suffering from low self-esteem and what we can do about it¸ The power of mothers and fathers--how to help boys become more confident, loving, and able to lead happier lives as men¸ Adolescence as a "second chance"--how to use adolescence as a new opportunity to grow closer to a boy and to help him deal with such topics as smoking, drinking, and sex¸ Getting boys to talk--the timed-silence syndrome and how to encourage boys to talk and share their feelings¸ Overcoming depression--the hidden crisis of boyhood depression: how to spot it, and what to do about it¸ Violence, alcohol, drugs, and much, much more Free Shipping!

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Location: Austin, Texas

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