Best parenting boys books according to redditors

We found 15 Reddit comments discussing the best parenting boys books. We ranked the 9 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about Parenting Boys:

u/Snowleaf · 28 pointsr/forwardsfromgrandma

It appears to be real

> Parent, if you have a young son and you want him to grow up to be a man, then you need to keep him away from pop culture, public school and a lot of Nancy Boy churches. If metrosexual pop culture, feminized public schools and the effeminate branches of evanjellycalism lay their sissy hands on him, you can kiss his masculinity good-bye because they will morph him into a dandy. Yeah, mom and dad, if – if – you dare to raise your boy as a classic boy in this castrated epoch, then you’ve got a task that’s more difficult than getting a drunk to hit the urinal at Chili’s. Read this bold and hard-hitting guide by Doug Giles, the politically incorrect master, on how to raise your son in a world which more and more seems to hate masculinity.

There are no words.

u/[deleted] · 7 pointsr/MensRights

You're talking about male representation in college, but the problems with education for boys starts much earlier.

There are many issues boys face in school. Studies have shown that boys do better with male teachers, but elementary school teachers are nearly all female. A recent study demonstrated that female teachers tend to discriminate against boys when grading. Teaching methods have been tailored to girls' strengths, often to the disadvantage of boys. Certain skills have been pushed earlier in the curriculum, which disadvantages boys due to their slower biological maturation. Boys without their biological fathers at home do worse in school, and more and more boys are growing up without their father. Boys face a culture of "girl power" in school, where they feel neglected. Some blame video games. Others blame an anti-intellectual cultural ideal for men. A lack of recess and physical activity in school is also thought to hurt boys.

The list of issues is long, and some of them are heavily debated. There have been many books on the subject - a bit of google time will find you some. Why Boys Fail is one I read a while ago.

u/EqualResponsibility · 5 pointsr/cursedcomments

I’m not suggesting I feel worried. I’m recognizing that some would and do. Also, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that men as a whole are being demonized at the moment. Hell, look at the men who were publicly destroyed for just having bad dates during the MeToo movement. At least people recognized that shouldn’t have happened. But it did still happen.

Boys are behind in school now. They are graduating less from college. They have the highest suicide rates. There are no male family shelters, let alone male shelters for victims. Companies are creating campaigns suggesting men have toxic masculinity which somehow includes being stoic of all things. Women are getting awards for making no “man spreading” chairs, politicians are now using the phrase mansplaining.

These are more than just opinions. While I think it’s great your reality is unable to recognize these things, I’d suggest spending some time looking into it a little more as it is a great disservice to be willfully blind to these problems.

Boys left to fail at school because attempts to help them earn wrath of feminists, says ex-Ucas chief
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/11/16/boys-left-fail-school-attempts-help-earn-wrath-feminists-says/

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Boys-Fail-Educational-Leaving/dp/0814420176

If you are actually interested watch the videos by Camilla Page, AEI Scholar Christina Sommers and some others. I can get their names if you want

Hell, here’s another article from a female advocate suggesting people stop vilifying men: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/test-case/201210/in-defense-men-0

u/BackUpYourShit · 4 pointsr/TwoXChromosomes

Well I guess if you haven't individually experienced something, then it must not be true! Perhaps you should research the topic.

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Boys-Fail-Educational-Leaving/dp/0814420176/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485516292&sr=8-1&keywords=why+boys+fail

u/delamarche · 3 pointsr/SubredditDrama

Perhaps it is the fault of this book.

u/omegaXXIV · 2 pointsr/MensRights
u/singin8675309 · 2 pointsr/TrueReddit

I think I get what you're saying...and I'm not sure we disagree entirely. I think teaching kids how to market themselves assertively and communicate effectively is a proactive decision of the parents that teaches critical thinking and evaluation. Commercial TV is more about Junior passively absorbing intense psychological messages of self worth and inherent value based on product trends.

Teaching them how to make an intelligent argument for why they wants something is exactly what I do with mine, and my older kids are MUCH more skilled at it now that they've had several years without commercials screaming at them every 10 minutes of every show they watch. My younger kids really have no concept of commercials in the traditional sense, other than what we watch intentionally to talk about the concepts, and product promos in the shows they watch.

My job involves a LOT of branding and copy agonizing, I completely understand the value of that, and it's something I talk about with my kids regularly for that reason. But again - that's teaching them skills to use with the world around them, which is totally different than allowing them to be subjected to highly skilled professional marketing solely designed to teach kids to NEED the latest/greatest rocketblaster/chocolatecocoabombs. One is an outbound skill, the other is an inbound value.

I'm probably not articulating it very well, just got home and am tossing this note out before making dinner. But here are two books you might be interested in that really brought it all together -

Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes (no affiliate link)

Packaging Boyhood: Saving Our Sons from Superheroes, Slackers, and Other Media Stereotypes (Also no affiliate link)

u/iseehot · 1 pointr/MGTOW

Do you mean He'll Be OK ?

u/spreadjoy34 · 1 pointr/BabyNames

There's a whole chapter on names like this in Baby Names Made Easy. It's a reverse dictionary and awesome for finding names based on meanings.

https://smile.amazon.com/Baby-Names-Made-Easy-Reverse-Dictionary/dp/141656747X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527178738&sr=8-1&keywords=baby+names+made+easy

u/nicievans · 1 pointr/funny

Please note: "How to Raise a Boy Feminists Will Hate" is an Actual Title. http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Boys-Feminists-Will-Hate/dp/1618080458/ (Doug Giles)

Other Titles By Giles:

Raising Righteous and Rowdy Girls
http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Righteous-Rowdy-Girls-Giles/dp/0983175128/

Rise-Kill-Eat: The Theology of Hunting from Genesis to Revelation
http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Kill-Eat-Theology-Revelation/dp/1495109348

u/TheCheshireCody · 1 pointr/offbeat

>Raising Boys Feminists Will Hate!

Holy crap, that's a real book.

u/LikeAbrickShitHouse · 1 pointr/AskMen

Here's a great book that would be perfect for you; many parents in New Zealand are recommended to read this for teenage years: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0035ZDOIC/ref=cm_sw_su_dp