Raising Cain

Release on 2009-08-05 | by Dan Kindlon, Ph.D.

Q: Granted, your combined professional experience informs a large part of
Raising Cain, but to what extent did you draw from your respective experiences
of being a son? DK. A lot. Both Michael and I did. It was a very interesting journey
; ...

Raising Cain
  • Author: Dan Kindlon, Ph.D.
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • ISBN: 0307569225
  • Category: Family & Relationships
  • Page: 320
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Raising Cain

The stunning success of Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher's landmark book, showed a true and pressing need to address the emotional lives of girls. Now, finally, here is the book that answers our equally timely and critical need to understand our boys. In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country's leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a nation of boys who are hurting--sad, afraid, angry, and silent. Statistics point to an alarming number of young boys at high risk for suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, violence and loneliness. Kindlon and Thompson set out to answer this basic, crucial question: What do boys need that they're not getting? They illuminate the forces that threaten our boys, teaching them to believe that "cool" equals macho strength and stoicism. Cutting through outdated theories of "mother blame," "boy biology," and "testosterone," Kindlon and Thompson shed light on the destructive emotional training our boys receive--the emotional miseducation of boys. Through moving case studies and cutting-edge research, Raising Cain paints a portrait of boys systematically steered away from their emotional lives by adults and the peer "culture of cruelty"--boys who receive little encouragement to develop qualities such as compassion, sensitivity, and warmth. The good news is that this doesn't have to happen. There is much we can do to prevent it. Kindlon and Thompson make a compelling case that emotional literacy is the most valuable gift we can offer our sons, urging parents to recognize the price boys pay when we hold them to an impossible standard of manhood. They identify the social and emotional challenges that boys encounter in school and show how parents can help boys cultivate emotional awareness and empathy--giving them the vital connections and support they need to navigate the social pressures of youth. Powerfully written and deeply felt, Raising Cain will forever change the way we see our sons and will transform the way we help them to become happy and fulfilled young men. From the Hardcover edition.

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Authors: Richard J. Delaney
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Authors: W. T. Lhamon, University Distinguished Teaching Professor English Department George M Harper Professor of English W T Lhamon, Jr.
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

This is the story of an insubordinate, rebellious, popular culture stretching from Jim Crow to Hip hop. It is a look at how outcasts of official culture have made their own place in the world.
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Authors: Arthur Wayne Glowka
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In this one-act play, George and Martha have moved all over the Southeast with their wild son, Cain, trying to protect him from the consequences of his criminal behavior. In Texas, Cain finally meets those consequences and frees his family from its nomadic existence.
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Authors: Wayne Harvey
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-01 - Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

“Beside oneself,” “as old as the hills,” “the kiss of death,” “see eye to eye,” and “raising Cain” are all expressions most English speakers understand and use in conversation. If you asked someone what these phrases have in common, few would be able to say that they all come from

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