We parents are spending more and more time and money on parenting, author and psychologist Leonard Sax points out, but when you look at the results, things are getting worse, not better. The number of children being labeled and treated for ADHD – and even bipolar disorder – is increasing exponentially Children are generally out of shape and heavier than two decades ago Children and teens can’t handle failure and rejection – they’re more...
Book review about the Crisis of Teen Girls
Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls From Sax’s introduction to this book: “Early on I began to understand that girls are not the winners in this story. Both the girls and boys are disadvantaged, but they’re disadvantaged in different ways. More and more boys are developing an epicurean ability to enjoy themselves – they enjoy video games, pornography, food, and sleep – but they often don’t have the drive and...
Review of “Boys Adrift”
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men Reviewed by Timothy Anger, M.S. Recently I read “Boys Adrift” – a book by Dr. Leonard Sax, a pediatrician and psychologist in Exton, Pennsylvania. As a result of writing the book, he is now a speaker in very high demand around the United States and the world. This book explores the phenomenon of a generation of boys and young men who are...
Recommended Read: “Aggressive Girls, Clueless Boys”
A parent of a teen in our school heard about this book about aggressive girls on a radio interview and suggested we get it for the library. I did, and read it as soon as it arrived. Here’s the review I wrote on Amazon.com: “As principal of a Christian school for almost 30 years, I have to agree with the author’s premise that pre-teen and teen girls today are more forward and flirtatious than they were a generation ago. Sadly,...