I had a mixed reaction while reading this book. First, I'll say that I found it incredibly helpful, inspiring, and helpful as I think about raising my now 2-year old son. The book highlights such topics as a son's personality, helping your son in school (as many boys struggle with the typical classroom setting), praying for your son, overcoming your own fears (of your son being hurt or doing something wrong, etc), nurturing your son's faith, and much more. What I found most helpful in this book was how it talked about boys are different than boys and, as a result of that, how they need to be related to and parented differently than girls. Because all moms are girls, we don't necessarily know what our boys are thinking and feeling (and they can't necessarily tell us). There are some things I wouldn't have guessed and others that didn't surprise me but that I might not have thought of on my own.
When I say that I had a mixed reaction to this book, I was referring to the dread (is that the right word?) that this book brought to the surface of my son growing up. I've always known that my son is going to grow up and that there will be struggles with that, but having a book talk about the ways that this will happen naturally makes me want to take every moment as it comes! So I guess that is also a positive for this book.
I would recommend this book for mothers of sons. There are also helpful suggestions for raising daughters, but the main focus is certainly on how mothers can nurture their sons.
"Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc. Available at your favourite bookseller from Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group".
