pt. 1. Why boys are the way they are: -- Where it all begins: the biology of boyhood: -- Nature versus nurture -- The prime mover: testosterone -- How a boy thinks: the male brain -- The way boys feel: feelings and the brain -- From biology to culture -- The culture boys create: -- Competition, performance, and skill-building -- Task-specific empathy -- Large group preference -- The search for independence -- Personal sacrifice in the collective experience -- Male role models -- Making sport of life and life of sport -- The stages of a boy's life -- Can boys be boys and feminist too? -- pt. 2. What boys need: -- Boys need a tribe: -- The three families -- Boys as tribal creatures -- The first family -- The second family -- The third family.
Love you forever: what boys need from their mothers: -- The right conditions for 'good' mother-son relationships -- What boys need from mom in the first decade of life -- What boys need from mom in the second decade of life -- Does motherhood ever end? -- From daddy to dad: the father-son relationship: -- Of princes and kings -- The father a boy needs -- What father needs -- When a father gives his son his name -- From daddy to dad: letting the boy go.
A boy's second birth: the passage into manhood: -- Jack and the beanstalk -- The hero's journey -- Models of initiation -- pt. 3. How to raise a boy: -- Teaching boys discipline: -- What is healthy discipline? -- Discipline in the first decade of life -- Discipline in puberty and adolescence -- Difficult, violent boys -- Discipline as an ongoing system -- Teaching boys values, morality, and spirituality: -- To teach values to kids we must know our own -- The stages of moral development -- Using archetype and mythology to reach boys -- Teaching boys values through the media -- Teaching boys to care for their own souls -- I don't want to feel like a stranger.
Teaching boys about sex and love: -- Initiating boys into the world of sex and love -- Masturbation -- What if my son is gay? -- Sex education in the schools -- Love as a spiritual discipline -- Sex, love and the media -- Boys and sexual abuse -- Practical principles for teaching boys about sex, love and commitment -- Teaching boys a healthy male role in life: -- A sacred male role for the new millennium -- Giving boys important work -- Teaching boys a sacred role -- Epilogue.
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