Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood

Featuring a new preface by the author on how parents can make a difference.

With author appearances on Good Morning America, The Today Show, 20 /20 and NPR's Fresh Air, and featuring articles in Newsweek, Time, and The New York Times, Real Boys is one of the most talked-about and influential books published this year.

Based on William Pollack's groundbreaking research at Harvard Medical School over two decades, Real Boys explores why many boys are sad, lonely, and confused although they may appear tough, cheerful, and confident. Pollack challenges conventional expectations about manhood and masculinity that encourage parents to treat boys as little men, raising them through a toughening process that drives their true emotions underground. Only when we understand what boys are really like, says Pollack, can we help them develop more self-confidence and the emotional savvy they need to deal with issues such as depression, love and sexuality, drugs and alcohol, divorce, and violence.

Listening to the author William Pollack read Real Boys, it doesn't take long to find out that being a boy these days isn't all fun and games. As codirector of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical Center, Pollack has seen behind the stoic masks of troubled, modern boys as they struggle to cope with the mixed messages, conflicting expectations, and increasingly complex demands they receive from our evolving society. "New research shows that boys are faring less well ... that many boys have remarkably fragile self-esteem, and that the rates of both depression and suicide in boys are frighteningly on the rise."
What are parents to do? They could start by listening to the author's thoughts on contemporary child-rearing techniques, analysis of the root causes of many male behavior problems, and recommendations for avoiding all-too-common pitfalls. In Real Boys, Pollack draws upon nearly two decades of research to support his theories and makes an impressive assault on the popular myths surrounding the conventional definition of masculinity.
While listening to Real Boys, it is important to remember that Pollack is a psychologist, not a professional narrator. His enunciation is less than perfect and his reading sometimes strikes a clinical tone, but his intelligent writing and the obvious concern he holds for this important subject help carry a passionate message and compensate for any vocal shortcomings. (Running time: three hours, two cassettes) --George Laney

Silver is not GAY è__é Got it? Nothing in the game show it, so he isn't! Silvaze will lives!!!! FOR EVER! Please comment and enjoy \o/! Silver and Blaze belong to SEGA! Some poeple are saying that Silvaze failed because Silver is gay for many reasons, and that silver said that he doesn't love Blaze in the end of next gen "You're my friend, right?"... i don't think so, it is just because sonic team can't show someting like love or eventualy sex in there games. they are for children after all remember? It is because of that could hurts children... Horray for the sensure... It is not what you think, and i think silver is too shy and immature to tell her that he loves her so fast. I think poeple who are thinking about gay characters just imagine it... It is just in there mind, sonic team never turned there charaters like gay, because of he same reasons on my last paragraph. It is just fangirls imagination.^^ But poeple can think what they want, they are free, just respect the others... look at DA, i'm searching some sonic pics and i can see 80% of gay pics with no mature sencure.... That can hurt. I enoy smetmes to lok at it, but too much gay kill gay, and it is starting to borring me and revoting me... I'm going to think it is weird if it contine... Saddly. I liked to look at it for fu, but i'm starting to be hurted by somethings... Second point! The train scene when shadow kicked silver and lok at him when he tried to get up... Do you really think that he is loking at his bottom? 1/ When a grl is faling down, if i look at her or help her to get up, am I gay? 2/Shadow just look at him, jst to prepare himsef if silver wants to fight again. 3/Silver is not gay if shadow lok at hm lie that X), maybe shadow is if you wat, ut there are no reasons for silver. (I really do't thnk shadw and sonc or other character are gay too... even if i hate shadow xD) And Silvamy will fail, because Amy loves Sonic, not Silver x)

This is more spiritual than you may first think! Here I am a sweet young thing and so skinny in those days lighting a cigarette..but LOOK OVER MY HANDS, you will SEE A FACE/S from the spirit world..so hope you can all enlarge upon it and tell me what you think. Feel free to be welcomed to my "gay psychics and wizards" group to share pics like this

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