Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons

by: Meg Meeker, M.D.

Published by: Regnery Publishing, Inc.

Reviewed by Sharon Broom

Dr. Meg Meeker is the author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters and Epidemic: How Teen Sex is Killing our Kids. She has practiced pediatric and adolescent medicine for twenty years and is a fellow of the National Advisory Board of the Medical Institute.

It’s tough being a parent. It’s tough being a kid. In our politically charged and politically correct society we now tell ourselves that boys and girls are really the same. And in doing so we silence our strong, boisterous boys and demand they be more submissive and cooperative. We’re becoming social engineers. We’re attempting to force children into being what they are not nor were they ever meant to be. Our boys are at great risk.

Dr. Meeker says our boys need us, the parents. They need us to embrace and encourage who they are and celebrate it. We must ease their pressures and give them back their boyhood. Meeker says that any boy’s life is built around three things: his relationship with his parents, with God, and with his siblings and friends. She discusses the importance of taking responsibility, love, discipline and the need for their fathers. Meeker attacks the sex and violence on TV, video games and movies and well, just gives practical advice on how to help raise the expectations we have about boys while taking back and putting the fun into boyhood again.

This book, Let Boys Be Boys, focuses on the development of our boys and warns of the harm our liberal, feminized society. She reveals seven ways to help our boys grow into good, strong men.

Armchair Interviews says: A must read for all parents, even those who have girls because your girls will be marrying our boys someday.