I would like to share a self-help book for parents of boys or even a book boys should read because there is a lot of helpful information inside the Nurturing Boys to Be Better Men: Gender Equality Starts at Home by Shelly Vaziri Flais MD FAAP (Author). I received a physical copy of the book for this review. Check out the press release here.
Charlie informed me yesterday he is a man even though he isn’t 16 yet and no, longer needs my help. This morning Charlie comes downstairs and ask me when I’m going to do laundry because his clothes. Then Charlie says I’m hungry lets have some cereal but my bowl is dirty. In other words mom will you do my laundry and wash my bowl out. Yet he is “GROWN”!!
If this is being grown then please let me be as well. I sat at the desk and kept working but the more I thought about it the more I wanted to wash his clothes and clean his cereal bowl because one day sooner than later Charlie will be ready to move out. David jus laughs at Charlie and I and is always saying that Charlie is a momma’s boy and if truth be none so is David. Just let Granny Sherry call and he goes running.
I was going to read Nurturing Boys to Be Better Men: Gender Equality Starts at Home by myself. I decided Charlie and I would read the book together in his Home Economics Class for Health. I am so glad I did as I was able to learn things about my son I didn’t know. The book has brought us closer together.
Inside the book was a pack of Flower Seeds which Charlie and I will be adding to our Garden this week and working on together. Charlie and I learned a new word “pluripotent” which we’ve added to our Spelling list. I love how the author teaches us how to promote gender equality in our homes and I wish my parents had done this with my brother.
If you or someone you know has a son then I hope and pray you pick up a copy of Nurturing Boys to Be Better Men: Gender Equality Starts at Home for them. As well as all counselor’s and health teachers along with librarian’s should have copies of the book to share with the parents them come into contact with.
About:
Advance gender equality one family at a time.
Pediatrician and mother of four Dr. Shelly Flais gives parents the tools they need to start the lifelong process of raising their boys into men who are mentally healthy, empathetic, and committed to gender equality. Dr. Flais provides concrete techniques for parents to push back against cultural stereotypes and toxic masculinity as they nurture their sons. Because “kids do as they see,” the work of being role models for gender equality starts in the home.
Dr. Flais explains developmentally appropriate opportunities for growth and awareness of gender equality at every age from before birth through early adulthood. This conversation-starter emphasizes the benefits of gender equality for boys and girls and men and women, and discusses it not only in the context of the family, but also the extended family, school, and greater community.
About the Author: Shelly Vaziri Flais, MD, FAAP
Shelly Vaziri Flais, MD, FAAP, is a practicing pediatrician, mom of 4, and an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. In addition to her clinical practice and faculty responsibilities, she has authored several parenting books with the American Academy of Pediatrics and serves as an AAP spokesperson.
Her newest book with the AAP, “Nurturing Boys to Be Better Men; Gender Equality Starts at Home,” will be released October 2023. Her other titles include “Raising Twins; Parenting Multiples From Pregnancy Through the School Years” (now in its 3rd edition, winner of multiple awards), “Caring for your School Aged Child,” “The Big Book of Symptoms,” and has contributed to “Sleep: What Every Parent Needs to Know.” She has shared her reality-based parenting approach with national and local television, radio, online, and print news outlets. Her 4 children are now young adults and have served as her greatest teacher.
Check out the press release here
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
