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Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons Meg Meeker Regnery Publishing Buy: Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons From A Press Release Book Description Thirteen Michigan high school lacrosse players were suspended for writing a prom invitation from one of the players on their bare bottoms. "Many parents make the terrible mistake of trivializing boys' mischief," says Meg Meeker, M.D., author of *Boys Should Be Boys: The Seven Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons. "Parents routinely blame peer pressure for their sons' behaviors, but there is one pressure far more influential in a boy's life - his parents. We as parents need to not* dismiss such disrespectful behavior if we care about our sons' character." Meeker, bestselling author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, follows up her success with *Boys Should Be Boys* - a necessary guide for parents on how to raise morally upstanding, well adjusted sons in these turbulent times. In an age when children spend more time on iPods, MySpace, and playing violent video games than with their own families, popular culture is in competition with parenting. Meeker uses her more than twenty years of clinical practice and experience, together with current research, to help parents, teachers, and boys restore the magic of boyhood. Meeker exposes shocking statistics on the current state of boyhood in America, such as: ADHD is diagnosed seven times as often in boys as it is in girls Only 65 percent of boys graduate from high school, much lower than the graduation rate for girls 29 percent of boys admit to drinking alcohol before the age of thirteen 42 percent of white boys, 57 percent of Hispanic boys, and 74 percent of black boys have been sexually active before they graduate from high school But these statistics aren't our boys' faults. Focus on the development and advancement of girls has skyrocketed in the past few decades-but our liberal, feminized society has forgotten about young men. Doctors are over-diagnosing healthy, active boys, and school systems are ignoring their learning needs and leaving them in the educational dust. In *Boys Should Be Boys, Dr. Meeker reveals seven key tips we all need to help get boys back on track to becoming good men. About the Author:* MEG MEEKER, M.D. has spent the past twenty years practicing pediatric and adolescent medicine and counseling teens and parents. She is a fellow of both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Advisory Board of the Medical Institute. Dr. Meeker is the author of several books, including Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters and Epidemic: How Teen Sex Is Killing Our Kids. A popular speaker on teen issues, Dr. Meeker is frequently heard on nationally syndicated radio and television programs. She has been a guest on The Today Show, The O'Reilly Factor, Heartland with John Kasick, Dayside with Linda Vester, The Dr. Laura Program, NPR, The Michael Medved Show, Relevant Radio, G. Gordon Liddy, and many more. Meeker lives and works in Traverse City, Michigan, where she shares a medical practice with her husband, Walter. They have four children. Buy: Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons Return to the Dr. Laura Reading Corner

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