Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons
In Boys Should Be Boys, one of our most trusted authorities helps parents restore the delights of boyhood and enable today’s boys to become the mature, confident, and thoughtful men of tomorrow. Boys will always be boys—rambunctious, adventurous, and curious, climbing trees, building forts, playing tackle football, and pushing their growing bodies to the limit as part of the rite of passage into manhood. But today our sons face an increasingly hostile world that doesn’t value the high-spirited, magical nature of boys. In a collective call to let our boys be boys, Dr. Meg Meeker explores the secrets to boyhood.
Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
In today’s increasingly complicated world, it’s often difficult for parents to connect with their daughters—and especially so for fathers. In this unique and invaluable guide, Dr. Meg Meeker, a pediatrician with more than twenty years’ experience counseling girls, reveals that a young woman’s relationship with her father is far more important than we’ve ever realized. To become a strong, confident woman, a daughter needs her father’s attention, protection, courage, and wisdom. Dr. Meeker shares the ten secrets every father needs to know in order to strengthen or rebuild bonds with his daughter and shape her life—and his own—for the better.
Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons (FamilyLife Today™ audio CD)
Are you expecting your son to behave like a girl? You might, and not even realize it. Boys are under attack, according to pediatrician and mother of six, Dr. Meg Meeker. Dr. Meeker tells how boys, who are naturally attracted to activity and motion, are being reprimanded for acting like boys. She also tells parents why it's important to teach their sons about the power of virtues like self-control. If they set the bar high for their sons, they'll most likely see them rise to that level of character and behavior.
Dr. Meeker’s popularity as a speaker on key issues confronting American families has created a strong following on her blogs for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today. She has also been a featured guest on major national television and radio shows including 60 Minutes, Dateline with Katie Couric, The Today Show, The O’Reilly Factor and Oprah and Friends.
Dr. Meeker is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a fellow of the National Advisory Board of The Medical Institute. She is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.