Swagger

Summary

"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



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.