November 1, 2013
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Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World
By Rosalind Wiseman
Harmony Books, 2013
Wiseman brings you into the cleverly cloaked world of boys. I read the book because it had begun to dawn on me that my preteen son was telling me very little about his social life. I had assumed that no news was good news, but as Wiseman explains, this notion is usually false in the case of boys.
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