Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons- Review

{Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons- Review}

Let me start off by saying that I am not a fan of self-help or parenting books, I find them generally boring and I usually lose interest pretty fast.  However, this book was different!

The author Meg (Margaret) Meeker M.D. has a definite way with words and finds a way to draw readers in from the first page to the last. She has spent more than 20 years in pediatric and adolescent medicine. She has written six bestselling books. She is also a public speaker on child and teen issues and is often in the spotlight on television and radio shows.

This book called out to me from the shelves; like I said before these kinds of books are not really my “thing” but I read the back cover and thought I would give it a shot. I am so glad that I did, this is one of the best books that I have ever read, and especially when it comes to learning about raising boys and with two of them I can use all the help I can get!

{Product Description- by Amazon.com}

In Boys Should Be Boys, one of our most trusted authorities helps parents restore the delights of boyhood and enable today’s boys to become the mature, confident, and thoughtful men of tomorrow. Boys will always be boys–rambunctious, adventurous, and curious, climbing trees, building forts, playing tackle football, and pushing their growing bodies to the limit as part of the rite of passage into manhood. But today our sons face an increasingly hostile world that doesn’t value the high-spirited, magical nature of boys. In a collective call to let our boys be boys, Dr. Meg Meeker explores the secrets to boyhood, including

• why rules and boundaries are crucial–and why boys feel lost without them
• how the outdoors is still the best playground, offering the sense of adventure that only Mother Nature can provide
• the essential ways to preserve a boy’s innocence (and help him grow up)
• the pitfalls moms and dads face when talking to their sons
• why moody and rebellious boys are not normal–and how to address such behavior
• how and when the “big” questions in life should be discussed: why he is here, what his purpose is, and why he is important

Parents are blessed with intuition and heart, but raising sons is a daunting responsibility. This uplifting guide makes the job a little easier.

 {My Opinion}

I would recommend this book to anyone who has a son, it was so helpful for me that I even asked Jason to read it; he did and he really thought it was great too. It really helped me to realize that my boys are just that; boys! The stuff that they do is normal but more than that, without that stuff they can't grow into the men that I hope they will be someday and that was a great revelation to me!

She has a book about raising girls called Strong Fathers, Strong daughters just in case you don’t have a son but you think a book like this could be helpful for you.

Meg Meeker has also written several mommy help books that I intend to check out, I will be sure to update you about what I think of them.

Have you read this book? Did you enjoy it? Do you have a favorite parenting book?

The opinions in this review are my own, I was not paid or provided with any products for this review.