What’s Happening To Our Boys?by Maggie Hamilton, Penguin, $29.95.
Let’s say it up front – I feel for today’s teenagers. Tricky enough that they have to find a path through the challenges particular to this stage of human evolution and Maggie Hamilton’s book canvasses them all – drugs and alcohol, peer pressure, porn, manipulation by marketers, self-image, new technology and so on.
And they also have to deal with the constant low-level fear, sometimes amped up to panic, of their parents. Still, it’s impossible to argue with the author’s pungent advice, which adds up, again and again, to reminding us to spend time with our boys, to keep them active and outdoors, to set boundaries and stick by them.
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