GROWING GREAT BOYS

How to bring out the best in your son

by IAN GRANT, with foreword by Nick Farr-Jones

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New softcover book, minor creasing at cover corners, published 2008, 208 pages.

In Growing Great Boys, parenting guru Ian Grant shows how to work with the essential character of boys, using understanding and emotional support to raise loyal, passionate, hard-working, sensitive, funny, fearless and strong men.

Growing Great Boys is full of practical and informative parenting advice for raising great sons, from the vital preschool years through to the challenges of teens. It includes chapters on the roles of mums and dads, and on the special challenges faced by solo parents. Hot tips, quotes and action labs encourage parents to take a hands-on approach, coaching their sons to succeed in the game of life.   

Chapters include:

• Growing boys is better than fixing men
• The landscape for boys in the 21st century
• Real differences - real boys
• The importance of fathers
• The value of mothers
• Parenting boys on your own
• Preschool years - the men your boys will become
• The middle years - your window of opportunity
• Teenagers - parenting boys in adolescence
• Mastering competence, confidence and initiative
• Boys and masks - talking to the real boy
• Boys and spirituality, traditions and rites of passage
• Twelve things I want my boys to know
• Bibliography and suggested reading

About the authors

Ian Grant is one of New Zealand's best known parenting experts. He and his wife Mary are the founders of Parents Inc, which hosts popular parenting seminars and programs. Ian speaks on five radio stations weekly and publishes a monthly parenting magazine. Ian and Mary have been married for over 45 years and have three adult children and nine grandchildren. He is also the co-author, with Mary, of Growing Great Girls - click here for more information

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Growing Great Boys: How to bring out the best in your son by Ian Grant