Ultimately, I have come to believe that in order to parent our boys best, we must get over the notion that silence is golden. We wouldn’t—we don’t—tolerate our girls shutting their doors and shutting us out, because she needs to know. Well, it’s time to start raising our boys more like we raise our girls. If there’s one thing you will realize while reading this book, I hope it’s that he needs to know, too. And that means we need to talk to them, even when our sons go quiet.
