Book Review: The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World by Anthony Rao, Ph.D.

In The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World, Dr. Anthony Rao explores and explains a wide variety of challenges that face both boys and parents in today’s social and emotional arenas.  Dr. Rao uses actual examples from his practice to help us sort through many of the issues we tackle as parents and how to help our boys survive our world’s expectations.  Throughout the pages he reiterates the disparity of society’s view on how a boy is supposed to be versus how he is actually wired to be.  He does a fabulous job of providing parents with ways to deal with behavioral and social issues as well as providing us with a litany of things to do and research before committing to medicating a child with special needs or diagnoses.  This is a book you will read cover to cover and definitely refer to as you look for answers and suggestions for raising your young boy.  You will appreciate Dr. Rao’s use of everyday language as he addresses everyday issues.  Any parent could make great use of his ideas for tacking specific issues as well as his general advice for steering our boys in and acceptable ands appropriate direction.  Note: I especially enjoyed how Dr. Rao provided us with follow up information on how his clients grew up.  It’s interesting to read what his former young male clients and their parents have to say after years of using his help.

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