Raising Confident Boys 100 Tips for Parents and Teachers (Paperback)

From the Publisher: An illuminating handbook designed to help parents and teachers foster self-confidence in young boys explains how to provide appropriate emotional support and promote self-esteem, furnishing a range of effective and practical tips to help youngsters through difficult times. Orignal. Boys need to be noticed, admired, understood, and accepted to feel good about themselves. Boys who lack appropriate emotional support from the adults close to them are at risk of believing they don't fit in and are likely to act accordingly, engaging in risky behaviors-including at worst using drugs and acting out violently. Raising Confident Boys teaches readers what makes boys prone to low self-esteem and provides practical, effective tips for managing these situations as they arise.