false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255674230m/616564.jpg 616564 3 Building on the success of his guide to raising healthy young boys (<I>The Wonder of Boys</I>, Michael Gurian has written the next chapter--a book focusing on the much-maligned adolescent male. Gurian asserts, "We do not understand adolescent-male development, and therefore are unable to give our adolescent males the kind of love they need to become fully responsible, loving, and wise men." Adolescent boys may appear to be self-sufficient, but Gurian asserts that they actually need their parents and elders desperately. The author carefully illustrates what we--as parents, mentors, and educators--need to know about male adolescents, and what we can do to aid them on their journey to adulthood.<p> In the face of many sociologists and scholars who strongly declare the contrary, Gurian claims a biological basis for many male behavioral traits. In <I>A Fine Young Man</I>, he employs convincing data from scientific studies on neurological development to assert that female and male brains have significant differences, and that testosterone plays an important role in male development and behavior.<p> But <I>A Fine Young Man</I> offers far more than theory. Gurian's arguments are firmly rooted in reality, and he offers specific suggestions for typical family dilemmas. He breaks down the stages of development into preadolescence, early, middle, and late adolescence; discusses education and the role of the media; and suggests ways to keep aggression (caused in part by the testosterone flooding the adolescent male brain) from becoming violence. In a social sense, Gurian says, adolescent boys are our most undernourished population, and <I>A Fine Young Man</I> encapsulates his hope that our neglected young men receive the nurturing they need. <I>--Ericka Lutz</I> 602993 1990 A Fine Young Man: What Parents, Mentors, and Educators Can Do to Shape Adolescent Boys into Exceptional Men total:33|5:12|4:13|3:6|2:2|1:0| 33 134 71 6 3 0 false false Tue Oct 06 09:47:14 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 09:47:14 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jul 07 23:13:09 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 23:17:17 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 06 18:19:18 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 18:19:33 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 22:04:03 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 22:14:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Jun 26 13:13:27 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 13:18:21 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Mar 27 07:21:53 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 07:22:08 -0700 2008 5 0 true false Thu Nov 26 12:14:30 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 12:14:37 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 24 13:43:45 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 13:43:45 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Nov 23 10:49:23 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 10:49:31 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 18 09:50:23 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 09:50:23 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 08:33:59 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 19:25:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 07:56:55 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 07:56:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 20 09:35:52 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 09:35:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 17 04:37:48 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 04:37:48 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 09:42:33 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 09:42:33 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Aug 30 12:43:27 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 12:43:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 27 23:31:18 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 23:31:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jul 30 11:37:15 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 11:37:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 29 07:41:36 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 07:41:44 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Aug 22 21:29:50 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 22:16:57 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 21:29:50 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=616564