The Need to Encourage Boys to be Boys: A Great, Valuable Read!
The really marvelous thing about “The Dangerous Book for Boys” (HarperCollins 2007) isn’t that it is—in a word and as its British adherents might say of its British authors—“brilliant.”
It’s that in four months it has taken the American market by storm.
This in a market in which we seem routinely bent on turning our boys into. . . girls.
And let me be clear: Unlike what I suspect is my feminist sister’s predilection – I don’t think this is a good thing.
“Dangerous,” by British brothers Conn and Hal Iggulden (I long thought it impossible to improve on “The Brothers Grimm” when it comes to names, but I think they’ve done it) have written a book for boys and their cringing mothers everywhere.
(As a mother of 4 young kids, the oldest a 13-year-old boy, I’m convinced, by the way, that we mothers are generally supposed to cringe when ... Read More...
