BOYS TODAY FACE UNIQUE CHALLENGES AND PRESSURES, and the burden on mothers to guide their children through them can feel overwhelming. Calling upon thirty years of experience as a pediatrician and a mother of sour, Meg Meeker, M.D., shares the secrets that every mother needs to know in order to strengthen-or rebuild-her relationship with her son, including:

• The crucial role mothers play in teaching their sons to respect women as they grow up.
• The importance of conveying the values of hard work, community service, and a well-developed inner life.
• The natural traps mothers of boys often fall into-and how to avoid them.
• The key to raising sons without emotional baggage and limitations.
• The best ways to survive the moments when the going gets tough and a mom's natural ways of communicating-talking, analyzing, exploring-only fuel the fire.

By providing encouragement, education, and essential advice, this empowering book offers a road map to help mothers find the strength and confidence to raise extraordinary sons-so that they will become the men they are meant to be.

• Paperback
• 342 pages