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Rescuing Our Sons

8 Solutions to Our Crisis of Disaffected Teen Boys (A Psychologist's Roadmap)

Dr John Duffy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Mango Media

Published:5th Jan '24

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Parenting Teen Boys with Love and Confidence

“John is the real deal… He knows what kids are dealing with, what their struggles are, where their strengths lie, what they know, and what they need.”—Giuliana Rancic,  journalist, television personality, and infotainer

#1 Best Seller in Popular Adolescent Psychology

Dr. John Duffy; bestselling author of Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety, clinical psychologist, and parenting expert; offers 8 practical solutions for dealing with our national crisis of disaffected boys and young men.

How to help our sons grow into happy, successful, capable adults. Recent decades have shown that boys are simply not thriving the way they should be. In Rescuing Our Sons, Dr. Duffy has developed 8 practical parenting steps to improve your understanding of your teenager, equip him with life skills to improve his present and his future, and bring your family together.

Become the effective, confident parent your teen needs. Raising responsible, confident boys is difficult, especially through the teen years. Dr. Duffy is dedicated to helping you encourage your son’s growth with positive parenting tips.

Inside, you’ll find:

  • Practical and proven parenting strategies for dealing with the common issues that teen boys face, including gaming addictions, pornography, vaping, and drug use
  • New perspectives and insights on your son’s teenage brain and behavior that will help you develop a more meaningful relationship with him
  • Methods for effectively raising a motivated young man who can overcome depression, anxiety, and risky behaviors

Readers of books on parenting teens, such as The Teenage BrainHow to Raise an AdultHe’s Not Lazy, or Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety, will want to pick up a copy of Dr. Duffy’s Rescuing Our Sons

“Importantly, this book doesn’t stop at pointing out the crisis in our midst. Duffy spends equal time on solutions, including a jam-packed resource guide filled with sites, seminars, apps, and experts to help boys with everything from finances to physical health to job searches to internet safety. He also doubles down on gentle, consistent nudges toward grace and empathy. ‘Listen more than you speak,’ Duffy writes. ‘Use emotional language when you talk with your boys. Encourage them to keep an open mind by doing so yourself. Hug them frequently. Show them your unconditional positive regard for them on the most trying day. Bring gentleness, quiet, and stability into their loud, harsh, unpredictable world.’ They’re shaped by that world, after all, and they’re shaping it. And it’s on us to help them remember how much the world needs and wants their full, whole, healthy, complicated, beautiful selves around.”
Chicago Tribune

ISBN: 9781684813681

Dimensions: 215mm x 139mm x 12mm

Weight: unknown

212 pages