Secure Daughters, Confident Sons: How Parents Guide Their Children into Authentic Masculinity and Femininity

by Glenn T. Stanton

Raise secure, confident kids in a gender-confused world

In this eye-opening book, family researcher Glenn T. Stanton offers a clear vision for why gender matters in how we raise our children. His thought-provoking insights expose the problems with stifling stereotypes and damaging cultural assumptions, then highlight a practical pathway for guiding children into healthy manhood and womanhood.
 
You’ll discover…
   ·  what gender-appropriate behavior looks like at various ages—and why you shouldn’t panic if your toddler boy plays with his sister’s dolls. 
   ·  how to help your daughter become secure in her sense of significance—whether she prefers chasing butterflies or shooting hoops.
   ·  how to inspire your son to compete and take healthy risks—in ways that fit his unique personality.
   ·  how moms and dads complement one another as they discipline differently, comfort differently, and influence differently.
   ·  what you can do on a daily basis to nurture your children’s God-given design and help them resist the pressure to conform to arbitrary cultural rules.
 
With practical tools, well-researched insights, and real-life scenarios, this book equips parents to launch daughters who are secure in the power of their femininity and sons who are confident in their strength to make a difference in the world.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction, Family, Self Help, Christian

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 18, 2011

Reviews

[Mary-Jane]

This book overviews many research results about male-female differences, although not every section is clearly referenced in terms of sources or extent of established research conclusions. I was expecting a book with practical suggestions, and this book is more of a "nature" book. The "nurture" aspect is vague and nonspecific.

In general, the author uses too much case study about his own family which detracts from the book's aim to present scientific information in the field.

I gained an insight which is to consider a boy to be exploratory rather than impulsive, a more positive way to frame behaviour that is often viewed as negative.

[T.]

Glenn Stanton at Plough on "Why Dads Matter": https://www.plough.com/en/topics/comm...

[Richard Hammond]

I was hoping for a more biblically based book on the character of male and female. This book doesn't seem to fit that bill. I got about half way through the book with the hope that it would tie back to the Bible, but it never seemed to get there.

[Judson Marvel]

A great, timely book.

[Shawna]

Excellent book demonstrating that there really isn’t such a thing as parenting, there’s only momming and dadding-and each child needs both!

[Carleigh Lindberg]

Excellent, practical, Biblical perspective on parenting two distinctly different genders.

[Matthew]

I thought this was a great book to read about how parents guide their children into authentic masculinity and femininity. It is both challenging and awe inspiring as to how God created us and made us family units.

[Mary]

Lots of good info, but lacking the practical application that I was expecting.

[Sharon Williams]

My Review

[Brendan]

Lots of good things to ponder and worth revisiting many times.

[Kayelynn Judy]

This was a pretty informative book. Ive passed it on to some of my friends..You can learn alot !