carrie's review
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon
this book is case history after case history of two psychologists who work with boys. the point -- that boys often have a poor emotional upbringing -- is punched in again and again. unfortunately, we never get the good stuff: HOW do they psychologists change this? what are the conversations they have with the boys? it's also a bit disorganized (stories don't seem to connect and it's hard to understand the 'why' when we're always only given the beginning descriptive background the cases). also, watch out- there are big, leaping generalizations that tend to offend. nothing new here, but interesting little vignettes and insight into boys' emotions.
