Please Recommend a Book for Boys about their Changing Bodies...

[wunda]

and i don't mean playboy LOL

My 9 year old is asking all those questions about his body. I don't have a problem answering these questions as his mom. (single mom here) however i also recognize that he is starting to ask for some privacy too, so a book he can refer to on his own seems like a good idea.

So, how about it? Anyone have any good recommendations for a pre-pubecent boy to read about his changing body?

Also, it might be fun to start a thread about what the Wacco Men think is important to tell a boy about his body.

Thanks for your insight

[alanora]

There is an excellent book about orientation called "Am I Blue?", I highly suggest that one. Answers depend on the questions...at his age, the simpler the better.


and i don't mean playboy LOL

My 9 year old is asking all those questions about his body. I don't have a problem answering these questions as his mom. (single mom here) however i also recognize that he is starting to ask for some privacy too, so a book he can refer to on his own seems like a good idea.

So, how about it? Anyone have any good recommendations for a pre-pubecent boy to read about his changing body?

Also, it might be fun to start a thread about what the Wacco Men think is important to tell a boy about his body.

Thanks for your insight

[dw41552]

Preparing for Adolescence: How to Survive the Coming Years of Change - By: Dr. James Dobson - Christianbook.com (https://family.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=738260&netp_id=422615&event=HPBUT&item_code=WW&view=covers)


and i don't mean playboy LOL

My 9 year old is asking all those questions about his body. I don't have a problem answering these questions as his mom. (single mom here) however i also recognize that he is starting to ask for some privacy too, so a book he can refer to on his own seems like a good idea.

So, how about it? Anyone have any good recommendations for a pre-pubecent boy to read about his changing body?

Also, it might be fun to start a thread about what the Wacco Men think is important to tell a boy about his body.

Thanks for your insight

[Dixon]

Hey, wunda--

I would NOT recommend the Dobson book that dw41552 recommends, even though I haven't read it myself, simply because Dobson is a notorious, bigoted right-wing evangelical Christian ideologue. It's hard to imagine that a book by Dobson would give your kid positive values regarding his body (or much of anything else for that matter).

And speaking as a former evangelical Christian myself, I've gotta say that their attitude toward the body tends to be shame-based rather than positive, not something you wanna expose your kid to.

Cheers;

Dixon


and i don't mean playboy LOL

My 9 year old is asking all those questions about his body. I don't have a problem answering these questions as his mom. (single mom here) however i also recognize that he is starting to ask for some privacy too, so a book he can refer to on his own seems like a good idea.

So, how about it? Anyone have any good recommendations for a pre-pubecent boy to read about his changing body?

Also, it might be fun to start a thread about what the Wacco Men think is important to tell a boy about his body.

Thanks for your insight

[dw41552]

Hey, wunda--

I would NOT recommend the Dobson book that dw41552 recommends, even though I haven't read it myself, simply because Dobson is a notorious, bigoted right-wing evangelical Christian ideologue. It's hard to imagine that a book by Dobson would give your kid positive values regarding his body (or much of anything else for that matter).

And speaking as a former evangelical Christian myself, I've gotta say that their attitude toward the body tends to be shame-based rather than positive, not something you wanna expose your kid to.

Cheers;

Dixon

Great advice from somone one who's never read one of Dr. Dobson's books, and who is a former Christian. I have read several of his books and I learned a great deal from them. They helped me be a better father to my son. I am so sure that this book would be good for you that I will buy it for you. Wunda all you have to do is tell me where to have it sent.

God bless

[phooph]

Great advice from somone one who's never read one of Dr. Dobson's books, and who is a former Christian. I have read several of his books and I learned a great deal from them. They helped me be a better father to my son. I am so sure that this book would be good for you that I will buy it for you. Wunda all you have to do is tell me where to have it sent.

God bless

I have read some of Dobson's books and used to hear him on the radio quite regularly when I lived in New Mexico, I can tell you that as a credential psychologist he does give some good advice, but then he will throw in a clinker that is right out of left field. They guy advocates and supports child abuse. He doesn't believe it is child abuse but to any rational person and to anyone educated on the issue it is clearly child abuse, both physical and emotional.

Dobson got some of his followers in the Colorado legislature to craft a bill a few years ago to hold parents harmless for injury, including injury leading to death, resulting from the administration of discipline to their children. The state offered it as a referendum to the voters and the good people of Colorado soundly defeated it.

One of the things I learned about psychologists, having had a number of them for friends, is that they are often attracted to the field because of the wounds they suffered in childhood. Many of them gain understanding but not power over their inner demons and visit them upon their families and others over whom they have influence. In New England about 20 years ago there was a Christian community that garnered much attention when a two year old was beaten to death because he would not stop acting like a two year old. It eventually came out that nearly all the adult members of this community were psychologists.

But back to the topic of books on raising boys. You might check the reviews at the links below:
Amazon.com: "helpful books on raising boys!" (https://www.amazon.com/helpful-books-on-raising-boys/lm/IFAC8ZK2WR52)

Berkeley Parents Network: Books about Raising Boys (https://parents.berkeley.edu/recommend/where2buy/raisingboys.html)

[irish_rose611]

There is an excellent book about orientation called "Am I Blue?", I highly suggest that one. Answers depend on the questions...at his age, the simpler the better.


can you tell me the author of the book "Am I Blue?"
I searched Amazon and found several books with that title
-- including one about being Gay (pretty sure that's not the one you recommend -hopefully not anyway)
but I couldn't find one about boys growing up/coming of age.
As a mother of an 11 year old who is also asking lots of questions, I'm interested in a recommend as well.
;)

[Thad]

Isn't this some kind of indictment on our so called progressive life, that you ask for a book instead of a man?
In tribal cultures this is where the boy begins to leave his mothers ways and enter into the world of men. I speak of the world of men pre European, particularly North American. Pick your own cultural flavor but whenever it was, pre-guilt phase of the modern indoctrination.