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Books for a Better Life Award Winner Here is a landmark book that reveals the way boys think and that shows parents, educators and coaches how to reach out and help boys overcome their most common yet difficult challenges -- by the bestselling author who changed our conception of adolescent girls. Do you constantly struggle to pull information from your son, student, or athlete, only to encounter mumbling or evasive assurances such as It s nothing or I m good? Do you sense that the boy you care about is being bullied, but that he ll do anything to avoid your help? Have you repeatedly reminded him that schoolwork and chores come before video games only to spy him reaching for the controller as soon as you leave the room? Have you watched with frustration as your boy flounders with girls? Welcome to Boy World. It s a place where asking for help or showing emotional pain often feels impossible. Where sports and video games can mean everything, but working hard in school frequently earns ridicule from the guys even as they ask to copy assignments. Where masterminds dominate and friends ruthlessly insult each other but can never object when someone steps over the line. Where hiding problems from adults is the ironclad rule because their involvement only makes situations worse. Boy world is governed by social hierarchies and a powerful set of unwritten rules that have huge implications for your boy s relationships, his interactions with you, and the man he ll become. If you want what s best for him, you need to know what these rules are and how to work with them effectively. What you ll find in Masterminds and Wingmen is critically important for every parent or anyone who cares about boys to know. Collaborating with a large team of middle- and high-school-age editors, Rosalind Wiseman has created an unprecedented guide to the life your boy is actually experiencing his on-the-ground reality. Not only does Wiseman challenge you to examine your assumptions, she offers innovative coping strategies aimed at helping your boy develop a positive, authentic, and strong sense of self. From the Hardcover edition.

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Trying to communicate with boys - teenage boys especially -- can sometimes feel like cracking the world's most complicated secret code. What makes Masterminds and Wingmen so remarkable is how thoroughly it decrypts boy-world language. It allows us to really connect with boys. If you want to understand what's in your son's head, read this book! <br> --Michael Gurian, New York Times bestselling author of The Wonder of Boys

<p> Rosalind Wiseman, who so insightfully explained the world of girls in Queen Bees and Wannabes, has done it again. This book is a powerful exploration of the inner life of boys, which is far more complex than many parents and educators may realize. Wiseman reveals the unwritten rules boys must both abide by and try to overcome, and she helps parents understand boys' reactions, as well as their own. This is an essential guide - not just for parents but anyone who wants to better understand their own childhood and its impact. <br>--Anderson Cooper<br> <br> This book is a gem. Rosalind Wiseman offers readers deep, nuanced, up-to-the-minute insight into today's boy. She explains how and why boys, in so many areas, make it easy for parents and educators to miss out on their suffering and their strength. Most important, she shows how to reach out and lift boys up without getting on their nerves. <br>--Wendy Mogel, PhD, author of the New York Times bestseller The Blessing of a Skinned Knee <br> Trying to communicate with boys - teenage boys especially -- can sometimes feel like cracking the world's most complicated secret code. What makes Masterminds and Wingmen so remarkable is how thoroughly it decrypts boy-world language. It allows us to really connect with boys. If you want to understand what's in your son's head, read this book! <br> --Michael Gurian, New York Times bestselling author of The Wonder of Boys <br> Rosalind Wiseman is perhaps America's foremost guide through the complex social hierarchies and cruel logics that govern adolescents' lives. And Masterminds and Wingmen maps the foreign territory of boys' social and interior emotional lives as deftly and compassionately as Wiseman's earlier book on girls. With clear analysis and down-to-earth practical advice, this book will guide many many conversations between parents and their sons. <br> --Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men <br>

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ROSALIND WISEMAN is an internationally recognized expert on children, parenting, bullying, social justice, and ethical leadership, and the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author <i>of Queen Bees and Wannabes</i> and <i>Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads</i>.

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