Swagger: 10 Urgent Rules for Raising Boys in an Era of Failing Schools, Mass Joblessness, and Thug Culture - Hardcover

Bloom, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1936467690 ISBN 13: 9781936467693

Publisher: Vantage Point, 2012

Synopsis

From Swagger:  "At this very moment, through no fault of their own, our boys are caught in the vortex of four powerful, insidious, often invisible forces which conspire to rob them of their future." We medicate, discipline, suspend and expel our boys from school at quadruple the rate of girls. We let double the number of boys drop out of high school than girls, and of those boys who do graduate, they are far more likely than their sisters to be illiterate, to fail to go to college, or to drop out of college if they do go.  Young American men are unemployed at the rate of their counterparts in Arab Spring countries.  Pop culture hammers our boys with the message that manhood equals emotional numbness, gun violence, rape, and drug use.  And we incarcerate more of our boys and men than any other country on earth, now or in human history. SWAGGER is a wakeup call for parents about the real world our boys inhabit right now, but it offers solutions as well. From how to teach your boy humility (the swagger anti-venom), to "making your home a reading mecca," creating an expectation of college graduation, and how to teach your boy to be critical of the media onslaught in his life, this book is also packed with research-proven, parent-tested, teacher-approved practical solutions, delivered in the author's trademark no-nonsense, often humorous, take-charge voice.
Advance Praise for Swagger:
"A comprehensive and engaging piece of work. A must-read for today's parents." --Dr. Drew Pinsky"Lisa Bloom always gives it to us straight. Swagger shows parents exactly how to keep their sons on the right track when the world our boys now inhabit so often lures them in the wrong direction. Packed with smart parenting tips that you can start using today, Swagger is both a passionate wake up call and a very useful handbook."  --DR. PHIL, television host and New York Times bestselling author"As girls surpass boys in schools and universities around the country, this book could not come at abetter time. Lisa has long been a great attorney and with Swagger she is now a passionate advocatefor our boys."  --Dan Abrams, ABC News Legal Analyst and author of Man Down"As the father of three sons (and sixdaughters), I am profoundly grateful to my friend Lisa Bloom for this timely and important wake up call. Every parent and anyone who cares about the next generation of boys should read this book, today!" --Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, New York Times bestselling author of 10 Conversations You Need to Have with Your Children

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

 "There is a great deal we as parents can do at little or no cost to give our boys the advantages they need right now to jack up their odds of finishing high school, going to college, and leading a decent, free life in which they can not only support a family but also contribute to their communities. Because parenting can't wait. Our boys are growing up now, in conditions they did not create, and they deserve more than an adulthood defined by illiteracy, poverty, and reporting to a parole officer. Swagger will show you how." 
--From the Introduction 
IN HER FRESH and frank New York Times best-seller, THINK, Lisa Bloom issued a wake-up call to women all across the country, challenging them to push back against tabloid media and the beauty industry, and to reclaim their brains. Now, in her thought-provoking follow-up, Swagger, she turns her focus to her male counterparts, with a startling look at boys and the culture in which they are growing up, asking: 
* Why is your son struggling in school? 
* Why can't teenage boys find jobs? 
* How do our media get away with messages that being a man means being a thug? 
* Why are our prisons overflowing with young men? 
* And most importantly: how can we protect our boys, and give them the bright future they deserve? 
Acclaimed author, passionate advocate, TV host, attorney, and mother Lisa Bloom answers these questions -- and many more -- in her trademark hard-hitting, no-nonsense style. Swagger is a call to action for parents -- and anyone who cares about boys -- going in depth to reveal the forces aligned against our sons, then offering ten practical, inexpensive, proven solutions for raising healthy sons, starting today.

From the Back Cover:

 LISA BLOOM is the New York Times bestselling author of Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World. Her recent article, "How to Talk to Little Girls," was one of the most shared articles on Facebook in 2011. A graduate of Yale Law School, and former Court TV anchor, Lisa appears often on CNN, CBS and HLN, and frequently speaks to corporate, nonprofit, student and book groups. She lives in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vantage Point
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1936467690
• ISBN 13: 9781936467693
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288