All Things Hold Together

Apr

The Dangerous Book for Boys

by Charity

Finally, a book that celebrates boys being boys. I can’t wait until this one hits book stores (May 1).

My older boys were born into a world where boys and girls were not different; where any differences that existed were considered imposed by society. You might be thinking “yeah, right,” but I actually bought that.

Add to that the fact that their father disappeared shortly after Big E was born, leaving me a single mother, who had been raised by a single-mother in a home with all girls, to raise them, and you have a recipe for disaster.

Thank God that He brought a wonderful father and husband into our lives to show the boys how to become good men, but we are still dealing daily with the mess that was made in their early years.

The bottom line - boys and girls are different.

Boys should be allowed and encouraged to be boys, and shown that their masculinity is something to be proud of - not ashamed of, as is the message our society often sends them.

But that’s a topic for a whole other post.

Here’s the clip about the book. (Click on the “clipped from” link to go to the full article.)

clipped from www.comcast.net

“I think we’ve come through the period when we said boys and girls were exactly the same, because they’re not. Boys and girls have different interests, different ways of learning, and there’s no real problem in writing a book that plays to that, and says, let’s celebrate it. Let’s go for a book that will appeal to boys.”

Exuding the brisk breeziness of Boy Scout manuals and Boy’s Own annuals, “The Dangerous Book” is a childhood how-to guide that covers everything from paper airplanes to go-carts, skipping stones to skinning a rabbit.

“I wanted to do the kind of book that we had lusted after when we were kids,” said Conn Iggulden, who co-wrote the book with his younger brother Hal.

He and Hal, a theater director, researched the “Dangerous Book” over six months in a garden shed, rediscovering the lost childhood arts of secret codes and water bombs and building simple batteries and pinhole projectors.