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The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Find Meaning, Significance, and Direction in Their Lives
The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Find Meaning, Significance, and Direction in Their Lives
The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Find Meaning, Significance, and Direction in Their Lives
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The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Find Meaning, Significance, and Direction in Their Lives

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The final and conclusive book in the groundbreaking series on boys and their development

In this climax to his series of landmark books about boys, Michael Gurian offers a powerful new program to help us give our sons a core purpose–a program based on building morality, character, career goals, the ability to form intimate relationships, selflessness, personal and community responsibility, and an accelerated process of developmental maturity. Gurian reveals how important purpose is for the success and happiness of boys and explains how a boy's core personality, nature, and genetic predisposition functions to create both strengths and weaknesses in their journey towards maturity.

  • Includes an innovative program for support and interventions according to the unique needs, weaknesses, and strengths of each individual young man.
  • This book is the follow-up to Gurian's bestselling The Minds of Boys
  • Draws on the latest science and field research on how boys develop neurologically
  • Gurian explores the unique issues boys must confront, and shows how their strategy for moral development and success in life is predicated on their nature and genetic predispositions.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherWiley
Release dateMar 23, 2009
ISBN9780470460702
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Michael Gurian

Michael Gurian is a renowned marriage and family counselor and the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-six books. He cofounded the Gurian Institute in 1996 and frequently speaks at hospitals, schools, community agencies, corporations, and churches, and consults with physicians, criminal justice personnel, and other professionals. Gurian previously taught at Gonzaga University and Ankara University. He lives with his wife, Gail, in Spokane, Washington. The couple has two grown children.

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    Picked this up after reading an article in Scouting in late 2009 about building better boys. This is an academic study based book with "lessons learned" and "tips" for implementation discovered over an extended time period (20 years??). Very thought provoking.

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