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21st Century Boys: How Modern Life is Driving Them Off the Rails and How We Can Get Them Back on Track
Sue Palmer
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Description for 21st Century Boys: How Modern Life is Driving Them Off the Rails and How We Can Get Them Back on Track
Paperback. A major new insight into the difficulties of raising boys, and how parents can help their sons fulfil their potential. From the author of TOXIC CHILDHOOD. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: VFXC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 268.
A major new insight into the difficulties of raising boys, and how parents can help their sons fulfil their potential. From the author of TOXIC CHILDHOOD.
What's happening to boys? At home, they sprawl before a flickering screen, lost in a solitary, sedentary fantasy world; at school, the choice of role seems limited to nerd or thug, bullied or bullying. By the time they reach their teens, the chances of depression, self-harm, drug or alcohol abuse grow each year. Raising boys has never been more difficult.
For the sake of their sons, parents need to know the facts about how boys develop and how best to protect them from the damaging effects of modern life. Sue Palmer assesses the issues currently confronting boys from birth to when they leave school, and explains how we can all help to ensure they emerge as healthy, normal adults. Based on the latest research from around the world, 21st CENTURY BOYS provides parents, teachers and others with a clear pathway to bringing up boys.
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
267g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781409103387
SKU
V9781409103387
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Sue Palmer
Sue Palmer is a writer, broadcaster and consultant on the education of young children. She is well-known to UK teachers as a specialist in literacy, especially the teaching of writing, but concern about children's lifestyles led her to research and publish the bestselling book TOXIC CHILDHOOD: How the Modern World Is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It, followed in 2007 by a practical handbook for parents, DETOXING CHILDHOOD: What Parents Need to Know to Raise Bright, Balanced Children, and her most recent book 21ST CENTURY BOYS. Sue is also a popular speaker, addressing thousands of teachers each year across the UK and around the world - and increasingly invited to address audiences of parents, health professionals and others concerned with children's well-being. She writes frequently in the national press, and has worked as a consultant to the National Literacy Trust, the Basic Skills Agency, many educational publishers, the Department for Education and the BBC. Visit Sue Palmer's website at www.suepalmer.co.uk
Reviews for 21st Century Boys: How Modern Life is Driving Them Off the Rails and How We Can Get Them Back on Track
In a hugely informative and interesting book packed with readable research, Palmer suggests how we can raise balanced, bright boys. Each chapter ends with practical suggestions for how this might be achieved
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
I suggest you go out and buy 21st Century Boys and read it for yourself, and I wager that you'll not have bought a more important or treasured book in a long time
JUNO
Based on the latest research from around the world, 21st Century Boys provides parents and teachers with a clear pathway to bringing up boys
GREEN PARENT
Invaluable advice on opening up conversations about school or anything else, and helping children talk through problems
SAINSBURYS MAGAZINE
Behind the screaming headlines, she talks a lot of sense
THE BOOKSELLER
A very well researched book with plenty of pretty inarguable evidence... The ever-practical Ms Palmer provides pages of "what we can do" suggestions at the end of each chapter, including specific ideas for teachers
SEC ED
Palmer (who has) more than 30 years' teaching experience under her belt, is a woman on a mission
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
Practical advice for parents is evident in each chapter and offered in a very non-patronizing "common sense" style
EYE
One of the pleasures of reviewing books for The Teacher is to find a book that makes you think about the way you approach teaching - 21st Century Boys is such a book
THE TEACHER
Behind the screaming headlines, she talks a lot of sense.
THE BOOKSELLER
In a hugely informative and interesting book packed with readable research, Palmer suggests how we can raise balanced, bright boys. Each chapter ends with practical suggestions for how this might be achieved
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
A very well researched book with plenty of pretty inarguable evidence... The ever-practical Ms Palmer provides pages of "what we can do" suggestions at the end of each chapter, including specific ideas for teachers
SEC ED (The Voice for Secondary Education)
Palmer (who has) more than 30 years' teaching experience under her belt, is a woman on a mission.
SCOTSMAN
Based on the latest research from around the world, 21st Century Boys provides parents and teachers with a clear pathway to bringing up boys.
GREEN PARENT
invaluable advice on opening up conversations about school or anything else, and helping children talk through problems
SAINSBURY MAGAZINE
Practical advice for parents is evident in each chapter and offered in a very non-patronizing "common sense" style.
EYE (EARLY YEARS EDUCATOR)
One of the pleasures of reviewing books for The Teacher is to find a book that makes you think about the way you approach teaching - 21st Century Boys is such a book
THE TEACHER
I suggest you go out and buy 21st Century Boys and read it for yourself, and I wager that you'll not have bought a more important or treasured book in a long time
JUNO
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
I suggest you go out and buy 21st Century Boys and read it for yourself, and I wager that you'll not have bought a more important or treasured book in a long time
JUNO
Based on the latest research from around the world, 21st Century Boys provides parents and teachers with a clear pathway to bringing up boys
GREEN PARENT
Invaluable advice on opening up conversations about school or anything else, and helping children talk through problems
SAINSBURYS MAGAZINE
Behind the screaming headlines, she talks a lot of sense
THE BOOKSELLER
A very well researched book with plenty of pretty inarguable evidence... The ever-practical Ms Palmer provides pages of "what we can do" suggestions at the end of each chapter, including specific ideas for teachers
SEC ED
Palmer (who has) more than 30 years' teaching experience under her belt, is a woman on a mission
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
Practical advice for parents is evident in each chapter and offered in a very non-patronizing "common sense" style
EYE
One of the pleasures of reviewing books for The Teacher is to find a book that makes you think about the way you approach teaching - 21st Century Boys is such a book
THE TEACHER
Behind the screaming headlines, she talks a lot of sense.
THE BOOKSELLER
In a hugely informative and interesting book packed with readable research, Palmer suggests how we can raise balanced, bright boys. Each chapter ends with practical suggestions for how this might be achieved
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
A very well researched book with plenty of pretty inarguable evidence... The ever-practical Ms Palmer provides pages of "what we can do" suggestions at the end of each chapter, including specific ideas for teachers
SEC ED (The Voice for Secondary Education)
Palmer (who has) more than 30 years' teaching experience under her belt, is a woman on a mission.
SCOTSMAN
Based on the latest research from around the world, 21st Century Boys provides parents and teachers with a clear pathway to bringing up boys.
GREEN PARENT
invaluable advice on opening up conversations about school or anything else, and helping children talk through problems
SAINSBURY MAGAZINE
Practical advice for parents is evident in each chapter and offered in a very non-patronizing "common sense" style.
EYE (EARLY YEARS EDUCATOR)
One of the pleasures of reviewing books for The Teacher is to find a book that makes you think about the way you approach teaching - 21st Century Boys is such a book
THE TEACHER
I suggest you go out and buy 21st Century Boys and read it for yourself, and I wager that you'll not have bought a more important or treasured book in a long time
JUNO