Boys Should Be Boys Quotes

“More important than succeeding at work is succeeding with your family.”
― Meg Meeker, Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons

“Know how to encourage your son. One fault is babying and spoiling him. But another is being so harsh that you lose communication with your son and destroy his sense of self-worth. We’ll look at how to strike the right balance.”
― Meg Meeker, Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons

“Time, attention, affection, and approval: they are what every boy needs in abundance from his parents. I can guarantee that if the majority of parent-son interactions are focused around these four things, then correction and discipline will work when they are required. Sons try to please their parents when they know they can please their parents. Without balancing love and discipline, boys are lost.”
― Meg Meeker, Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons

“In my experience, every good parent intuitively knows what is good and not good for his sons. The problem is, we ignore our intuitions and jump on the train loaded with mothers and fathers pushing their sons to outshine the others. Get off of that train.”
― Meg Meeker, Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons

“We hyper-conscientious parents reel with a constant thought stream regarding what else we should be doing. We should get him a tutor, we should make him have a job at fourteen, we should.... You fill in the blank. This is what we do best—fret over what else we can do for our sons. But that is exactly the wrong way to look at it. It’s far more important for parents to be, as in be around, and far less important for them to do, and certainly to buy, anything. In fact, what we should usually do is schedule fewer activities for our children (and fret less as well).”
― Meg Meeker, Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons

“Boys need to see fathers who behave as good men so that they can mimic that behavior. They need to see men at work. They need men who set standards—and if you don’t give them standards to live by, they’ll pick them up where they find them: MySpace, YouTube, or the wrong kids at school. A father needs to give his son the model of a man to measure up to. That’s what a son wants from his dad; he wants to admire him and be like him. That’s a lot of pressure to put on a father, but that’s what being a dad is all about; and the good news is that all dad really needs to do is to be available for his sons; to share time with them and let them watch him and learn from him.”
― Meg Meeker, Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons