It's a Boy!: Understanding Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18 | 
 enlarge | Authors: Michael Phd Thompson, Teresa Barker
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
List Price: $27.00
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 9660
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 0345493958
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.231081
EAN: 9780345493958
ASIN: 0345493958
Publication Date: March 25, 2008
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Product Description
From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain, It’s a Boy! is the first major parenting book to chart every stage of a boy’s life. This upbeat, authoritative, and reassuring guide–written by psychologist Michael Thompson, Ph.D., a leading international expert on boys’ development, and journalist Teresa H. Barker–shows how a boy’s inner life progresses through infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
What do boys actually need? How exactly does a healthy boy look and act? It’s a Boy! has the answers, providing expert advice on the developmental, psychological, social, and academic life of boys from infancy through the teen years. Exploring the many ways in which boys strive for masculinity and attempt to define themselves, Dr. Thompson identifies the key developmental transitions that mark a boy’s psychological growth and emotional health, and the challenges both boys and parents face at each age.
• Expecting a Boy: how our deeply held hopes, fears, and family histories shape our expectations of boys and our parenting techniques
• Baby Boys (birth to 18 months): falling in love with your son, healthy attachment, trust, and temperament
• Toddler Years (18 months to 3 years): boys on the go, bold steps, blankies, budding language, and rambunctious physicality
• Powerful Little Boys (ages 3 and 4): superhero ambitions, penis play and potty talk, learning to manage the force of his anger, and celebrating the power of the boy group
• Starting School (ages 5 through 7): developmental cues for school readiness, transitional challenges, girl cooties and boys-only play, tough talk, tender hearts, and first friends
• Boys on a Mission (ages 8 through 10): striving for mastery in sports, screen games, and boy society, organizing the boy brain for school success, and glaring academic gender gaps
• The Preteen (ages 11 through 13): puberty, posturing and popularity, the culture of cruelty, hidden sensitivity, and stoic silence in the middle school years
• Early High School (ages 14 and 15): the secret life of boys, powerful peer groups, sexuality, school strategies, the shift away from Mom (she knows too much), and yearning for Dad’s respect and attention
• On the Brink of Manhood (ages 16 through 18): the quest for independence, sex, love, driving, drinking, and other choices and challenges of life
Practical, insightful, wonderfully engaging, and filled with instructive true stories any parent of a son will recognize, It’s a Boy! is the definitive guide to raising boys in today’s world, revealing with humor, compassion, and joy all the infinite varieties of boys and the deep and profound ways in which we love them.
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 sigh of relief... August 29, 2008
sara (humboldt county)
A quick review to state how this book has helped my mind.
We have an almost 3 year old boy. He's been called busy, wild, spirited ...
I call him my little firecracker! You get the idea. He is nonstop.
Reading through the age related pages has really put my self at ease.
Certain sentences run through my mind now while we live our days!
I now have "reasons" for his actions and behaviors -it makes sense now.
Well, more sense anyway! I feel that i am more patient and tolerant.
Both of us, mom and dad, have read through his age pages and have found it very reassuring.
We will definitely have this book on hand for the next 15 years!
I really recommend this book to parents and caregivers of boys ...
it can shed some light for sure!
 Oh Boy July 30, 2008
Michelle Hardgrave (Arlington TX)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am very much enjoying this book. It has helped me understand my son and my husband better.
 The book is just okay July 24, 2008
MamaMia (New York)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I felt that the book was geered for parents with only "stereo-typical" boys, which I do not have. If your son is a typical high energy boy, then this is the book for you. If your son is more sensitive and laid back, there is not much in this book to answer your questions or validate your parenting tactics.
its a boy June 17, 2008
Hadjixenophontos Antigoni (Cyprus)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
A real value for money purchase. The book arrived on time , in excellent condition. The book is interesting , I have recently begun reading it , I would recommend it for mothers with sons. Thanks AMAZON!
Eye Opening!!! May 13, 2008
Triple A's Mom
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have 3 kids, almost 4 yd girl, 2 and 1/2 yd boy and 1 yd boy. Like most of women, it's easy to understand girl's point of view for me. My daughter is a typical drama queen/very pink/very princessie girl. My son #1 is a fun little guy. He loves to tease his sister, of course and us (parents), to experiment whatever he can think of, and is very physically active. Son #2 is learning from his brother A LOT. I've heard that boys and girls are different and I do agree with it, but I just didn't know how their brains work. This book opened my eyes to see their perspectives. I'm just so glad that there is somebody who loves boys and cherishes their nature so well that mom like me can learn and get to know about my own sons more. What we know about our sons and information from the book definitely supports to get to know them better. My concerns has been lighter!
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