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from: Seal Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9781580051453
ISBN: 1580051456
Label: Seal Press
Manufacturer: Seal Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: October 21, 2005
Publisher: Seal Press
Sales Rank: 15912
Studio: Seal Press
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Product Description:
The most popular question any pregnant woman is asked — aside from 'When are you due?' — has got to be 'Are you having a girl or a boy?' When author Andrea Buchanan, already a mom to a little girl, was pregnant with her second child, she marveled at the response of friends and total strangers alike: 'Boys are wonderful,' 'Boys are so much better than girls,' 'Boys love their mothers differently than girls.' This constant refrain led her to explore the issue herself, with help from her fellow writers and moms, many of whom had had the same experience.
The result is It's A Boy, a wide-ranging, often-humorous, and honest collection of essays about the experience of mothering boys. Taking on topics like aggression, parenting a teenage boy, and wishing for a daughter but getting a son, It's A Boy explores what it's like to mother sons and how that experience may be different, but no less satisfying, than mothering girls.
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Rating:  - Boring, Negative Book
I found this book to have a very negative and complaining tone to it. It was not what I expected. Rather than celebrate having a son it seemed to find writers that wanted a girl and ended up with a boy, or their boy was a bully or some other negative story. Not worth your precious time.
Rating:  - Great memories
This book brought back a lot of great memories of raising my 2 sons (who liked to fight a lot when they were younger) and I'm glad they're grown up now.
Rating:  - Disappointing.
I found this book, along with it's sister title, to be tirelessly repetitive and over simplified. Most of these women (the great majority of whom are upper middle class New Yorkers) have very similar stories to tell, albeit in slightly different ways and with a few truly unique perspectives and experiences. Whether reporting on mothering girls or boys: expectations based on very old gender stereotypes that are reinforced by the old, inevitable nature argument. I was saddened that the majority of ... Read More
Rating:  - An enjoyable collection of essays on raising sons.
I really enjoyed this collection of essays on raising sons. I have three of them myself and was very excited to get my hands on this book that tells the tales of mothers and their challenges and joys when raising their sons from conception to the dreaded teenage years. There were obviously some essays that I enjoyed more than others such as Susan Ito's "Samuel" about a woman and the son she never had. "Things You Can't Teach" by Katie Kaput a transgender woman trying to raise a son, "Pretty Baby" ... Read More
Rating: - I like it!
The stories are written by mothers of different ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. It's strange to realize that mothers all over the country feel the same way about having sons. Makes me LOVE being a mother of a boy!
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