Saving Our Sons: A New Path for Raising Healthy and Resilient Boys by Michael Gu

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In Saving Our Sons, Michael Gurian features the latest research in male emotional intelligence, male motivation development, neurotoxicity and the male brain, and electronics and videogame use.

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Boys and their communities are challenged today in ways they have not been before. Dr. Michael Gurian has studied and served children and their families for thirty years. His The Wonder of Boys (1996), is credited with sparking the "boys' movement." In Saving Our Sons, he features the latest research in male emotional intelligence, male motivation development, neurotoxicity and the male brain, and electronics and videogame use. Linking practical solutions with strategic new policies based on twenty years of field work through the Gurian Institute, Dr. Gurian provides a seven-stage model for the journey to manhood in the new millennium. Moving effortlessly between the practical and the political, Dr. Gurian also tackles social and cultural issues facing our sons. Two of the book's chapters provide readers with successful ways to challenge governmental and academic institutions, as well as the media, to see boys fully and fairly. In its eight chapters, Saving Our Sons is a unique combination of powerful writing, new research, practical strategies, and passionate social advocacy that helps our nation act on behalf of boys and young men--one home, one school, and one community at a time.

Review

"Michael Gurian is a leading-edge teacher with the rare ability to combine the personal, the practical, and the political in very accessible and powerful form. In Saving Our Sons, he has written a real page-turner. This is a very important book." -Daniel Amen, M.D., Author of Unleashing the Power of the Female Brain and The Brain Warrior's Way "Saving Our Sons is an immensely powerful mirror into the state of boyhood. This is a must read for everyone in America and indeed the world who cares about and is caring for boys." -Troy Kemp, Executive Director of The National Center for the Development of Boys

Long Description

Boys and their communities are challenged today in ways they have not been before. Dr. Michael Gurian has studied and served children and their families for thirty years. His The Wonder of Boys (1996), is credited with sparking the "boys' movement." In Saving Our Sons, he features the latest research in male emotional intelligence, male motivation development, neurotoxicity and the male brain, and electronics and videogame use. Linking practical solutions with strategic new policies based on twenty years of field work through the Gurian Institute, Dr. Gurian provides a seven-stage model for the journey to manhood in the new millennium. Moving effortlessly between the practical and the political, Dr. Gurian also tackles social and cultural issues facing our sons. Two of the book's chapters provide readers with successful ways to challenge governmental and academic institutions, as well as the media, to see boys fully and fairly. In its eight chapters, Saving Our Sons is a unique combination of powerful writing, new research, practical strategies, and passionate social advocacy that helps our nation act on behalf of boys and young men--one home, one school, and one community at a time.

Review Quote

"Michael Gurian is a leading-edge teacher with the rare ability to combine the personal, the practical, and the political in very accessible and powerful form. In Saving Our Sons, he has written a real page-turner. This is a very important book." -Daniel Amen, M.D., Author of Unleashing the Power of the Female Brain and The Brain Warrior's Way "Saving Our Sons is an immensely powerful mirror into the state of boyhood. This is a must read for everyone in America and indeed the world who cares about and is caring for boys." -Troy Kemp, Executive Director of The National Center for the Development of Boys

Details ISBN098399594X Author Michael Gurian Publisher Gurian Institute Press Language English ISBN-10 098399594X ISBN-13 9780983995944 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-01-01 Imprint Gurian Institute Press Subtitle A New Path for Raising Healthy and Resilient Boys Country of Publication United States Pages 344 Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Affiliation Spokane Washington Short Title Saving Our Sons UK Release Date 2017-01-01 DEWEY 305.230811 Audience General We've got this

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