Review "Rosalind Wiseman, who so insightfully explained the world of girls in Queen Bees and Wannabes, has done it again . . . This is an essential guide - not just for parents but anyone who wants to better understand their own childhood and its impact." --Anderson Cooper "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." --Wendy Mogel, PhD, author of the New York Times bestseller The Blessing of a Skinned Knee "Rosalind Wiseman, the well-known 'girl expert, ' has a real feel for the inner life of boys, and for the way they interact with their parents. Her new book, Masterminds and Wingmen, contains some of the best advice for communicating with boys that I've ever read: wise, clear and tough. The brilliant chapter on why boys lies to their parents is alone worth the price of the book." --Michael Thompson, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys "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!" --Michael Gurian, New York Times bestselling author of The Wonder of Boys "Rosalind Wiseman is perhaps America's foremost guide through the complex social hierarchies and cruel logics that govern adolescents' lives . . . With clear analysis and down-to-earth practical advice, this book will guide many many conversations between parents and their sons." --Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men "Rosalind Wiseman brings a distinctive perspective and voice to whatever issue she takes up . . . I found the book insightful and useful, as both a father to sons and as a professional working with violent youth who must deal with the most serious life issues facing other people's sons." --James Garbarino, PhD, author of Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them "Don't even try parenting, teaching or coaching a boy without reading Wiseman's book -- a field manual that you'll absolutely need if you wish to enter the strange and wondrous world of guys." --Richard Whitmire, author of Why Boys Fail "The world bombards boys with confusing and destructive messages- the net result is the creation of characters instead of young men with character. Masterminds and Wingmen will help parents, teachers, and coaches understand young boys and make a difference in their lives. An intriguing read." --Dr. Kevin Leman, author of Have a New Kid by Friday About the Author Rosalind Wiseman is a teacher, thought leader and bestselling author of Queen Bees & Wannabees (the book that inspired the movie and musical Mean Girls) and Masterminds & Wingmen, as well as the curriculum Owning Up: Empowering Adolescents to Confront Social Cruelty, Bullying, and Injustice. She is the founder of Cultures of Dignity and lives in Colorado with her husband and two children. Follow her on Twitter at @culturesodignity or on Facebook at culturesofdignity.
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The Ideal Book for Mothers, Teachers, and Women to Understand Boys and their Daily Dilemmas
This is one of my MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOKS.I purchased this book for two reasons. I had read Rosalind Wiseman's other book, Queen Bees and Wannabees, which was ABSOLUTELY SUPERB; and I had a current student (boy) who was being physically bullied at school, and was looking for some new ideas on how to help him.Masterminds and Wingmen was equally good as her first book, and I did find a very small (but adequate) amount in this book (about two or three pages) which dealt with strategies to use when someone is being physically bullied. They were helpful in that I had not thought of them before. It covered IF you need to fight, the issues you really need to be aware of first. It also gave some suggestions toward solving the problem without fighting that I had not thought of before (and I speak as both a parent and a teacher of 30 years' experience). If you are looking for a book specifically on how to deal with boys' problems of physical bullying, I would have liked a LOT more on this subject, but so far, I haven't found any better book. At least what this book touched on was useful.Aside from the question of physical bullying, this book was FANTASTIC. I am a parent, but not of boys. I would recommend this book to any parent, and to EVERY TEACHER. I learned so many things that I had never even thought about.The most surprising chapters for me dealt with every aspect of video games. As a person with zero interest in video games, I learned all about why they are so important to elementary-school and middle-school boys. Several chapters cover every aspect of how boys relate to each other through video games, and how if one understands the characters and ideas in video games, how one can much better understand boys' thinking and mentality (and even married men's thinking and mentality). I now think I will try out a few video games--not because I'm expecting to love them, but because this experience will help me better relate to my young male pupils as a teacher.This book covers many, many different aspects of boys' culture, thinking, and daily dilemmas. It is the perfect book for girls and women to read in order to understand the culture of boys and men.
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