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Decoding Boys: New Science Behind the Subtle Art of Raising Sons

Maybe someday

40

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

37/100

Critics

44/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Cara Natterson

Publisher:

Ballantine

Date:

February 11, 2020

A pediatrician and popular speaker offers a guidebook for parents confronting the rigors of raising a male child in a complicated world.

What The Reviewers Say

Lauren Smith Brody,
The New York Times Book Review
... clear and urgent.
Tony Miksanek,
Booklist
Natterson, a pediatrician, parent, and best-selling child-care author, provides a helpful guide for the care and handling of adolescent boys. Instructive chapters...effectively combine an understanding of pertinent male physiology with sound advice on good parenting.

Library Journal
... highly detailed.

Kirkus
Natterson’s tone is comforting as she seeks to clue readers in, in terms of perspective and advice, on the physiological and emotional changes afoot.