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Are boys and girls really different? Dr. Leonard Sax address issues like discipline, learning, risk taking, aggression, sex, and drugs, to show how boys and girls react in predictable and different ways.

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Why Gender Matters is an instructive handbook for parents and teachers...to create ways to cope with the differences between boys and girls. -- Boston Globe Convincing...Psychologist and family physician Leonard Sax, using twenty years of published research, offers a guide to the growing mountain of evidence that girls and boys really are different...This extremely readable book also includes shrewd advice on discipline, and on helping youngsters avoid drugs and early sexual activity. Sax's findings, insights, and provocative point of view should be of interest and help to many parents. -- New York Post Until recently, there have been two groups of people: those who argue sex differences are innate and should be embraced and those who insist that they are learned and should be eliminated by changing the environment. Sax is one of the few in the middle-convinced that boys and girls are innately different and that we must change the environment so differences don't become limitations. -- Time

Until recently, there have been two groups of people: those who argue sex differences are innate and should be embraced and those who insist that they are learned and should be eliminated by changing the environment. Sax is one of the few in the middle-convinced that boys and girls are innately different and that we must change the environment so differences don't become limitations. -- Time Convincing...Psychologist and family physician Leonard Sax, using twenty years of published research, offers a guide to the growing mountain of evidence that girls and boys really are different...This extremely readable book also includes shrewd advice on discipline, and on helping youngsters avoid drugs and early sexual activity. Sax's findings, insights, and provocative point of view should be of interest and help to many parents. -- New York Post Why Gender Matters is an instructive handbook for parents and teachers...to create ways to cope with the differences between boys and girls. -- Boston Globe

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Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D., is a psychologist, practicing family physician, and author of four books for parents, including the New York Times bestseller The Collapse of Parenting. Since 2001, he has visited more than four hundred schools worldwide. He is a frequent speaker for schools, professional organizations, and community groups. Find him online at LeonardSax.com. Keith Sellon-Wright is an audiobook narrator and an actor with more than thirty years of experience in Hollywood. His television roles have included Frasier, Seinfeld, The West Wing, Mad Men, Parks and Recreation, Grey's Anatomy, and Scandal. He also serves as a voice of the New York Times, narrating selected articles for their daily audio edition.

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