Weekend Homework 10-5-2012

My book is called Real Boys by William Pollack, PhD.D. the book is on how boys deal with growing up and facing their problems. There has been an outbreak of depression and suicides among teenage boys in the last century and that number is steadily increasing. One could say that this is a response to the book "Reviving Ophelia" which takes a bigger interest on how our society is affecting young girls and teenagers. While this is a memoir and has lots of physical information, that all the book seems to be. There doesn't seem to be any real substance in the book, past the fact that yes. there are boys facing a struggle and yes they need help. Pollack seems to just want to post a sad sob story on different boys growing up, but he offers no explanation as to what we can do about it.

In today's world, we baby our female children while forcing the male children to grow up to fast. Females are generally more nurtured and we regard them as vulnerable and don't want to kick them out of the metaphorical nest before they are ready to go into society as strong women. There is always going to be a primordial need to protect our children, yet that need seems to disappear once our male children reach the age of 6 or 7. Parents who stay attached to their kids will be warned about the risk of their children being bullied unless they start to grow independent. because of this, many young boys and teenagers are missing an instinctive bond with their parents that would usually help them through the tough times of adolescence.

While i think this is a perfect book for the book review, i am not able to get into it as well as i would like. I have thought numerous amounts of time about switching out my book but i also think i would be missing out on knowledge, that while i may think is boring a pointless now, that may help me in the long run if i ever have children. This book is very long and can get hard to follow, so i wouldn't recommend it unless you are a strong reader up for a challenge. there is lots of useful information in this book if you want to one day work with kids.