subject: How to Raise Your Boys [print this page] How to Raise Your Boys How to Raise Your Boys
Raising boys has never been a breeze to most parents and even teachers. They are generally an active lot and often more impulsive than girls. However, it is not difficult to raise them if we have tasked ourselves to understand their physical and emotional needs.
I come into the life-skills of raising boys by:-1) Understudying with those matured and experienced men who love and work with boys.In my case, I learnt it by working closely for 3 years with the male volunteers in The Boys' Brigade. You can find these good male role-models at home, in school, church or any established organization whereby they focus mainly working with boys, with the aim to nurture and groom them well into their manhood.2) Being tutored by the ExpertsI was fortunate to stumble upon Dr Michael Thompson's book Raising Cain - Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys. He has helped me to understand better the psychological development of boys especially the struggles most of them encounter silently in their growing up years which are surprisingly different from the girls'.Truly, he has empowered me with the necessary knowledge in my own journey in raising boys.3) Never give up in practicingI worked as a care-giver to schooling kids in a student care centre for 5 years. With no officer's uniform donning upon me, the respect or the speaking right I had to the boys had to be earned through my daily dealing with them. And I mean many daily dealings.By applying all the experience and knowledge I had over there, I have won many boys over. They are generally more co-operative, respectful and obedient under my care. They give me certain privileges which they don't give to other teachers in the center. And that makes me often an object of envy amongst my colleges.Boys are not difficult to handle. Personally I find they direct, usually act and speak in simpler terms than girls. And I strongly encourage parents and teachers to equip themselves with necessary knowledge and skills in raising their boys.Finally, life is short and our boys would not be with us long. Before you know it, they will be young men soon. Some will be great men, some will be our average Johns and sadly some may seem to have problem of growing up. So how successful your son would be will depend on how much we would want to invest in their lives.To learn more, go to http://zadki-raisingboys.blogspot.com/2010/06/raising-cain-dvd-review.html http://www.articlesbase.com/parenting-articles/how-to-raise-your-boys-2679823.html
