Wow. I am not sure how this got in my lists to read in 2019... I had a list of just authors that I had read prior or authors that I liked that recommended it. It must have been the later. I didn't really know or except that she is really raising her kids as Knights. Like no lie, Knights...



Lots of issues about this book. Mostly she is just generalizing a lot of different things and making way too many assumptions. She is just framing boys to be one way to be able to write her book.



"Boys are restr

Wow. I am not sure how this got in my lists to read in 2019... I had a list of just authors that I had read prior or authors that I liked that recommended it. It must have been the later. I didn't really know or except that she is really raising her kids as Knights. Like no lie, Knights...



Lots of issues about this book. Mostly she is just generalizing a lot of different things and making way too many assumptions. She is just framing boys to be one way to be able to write her book.



"Boys are restricted by just playing video games." Could you also make the claim that girls are just restricted to being on the phone?



She says boys have this entitlement in the middle class. But you don't say the upper or lower classes? Just the middle class.



She says technology is really bad sort of overall, which is a stretch. They can be good in classrooms for education.



She believes Superheroes, whom boys usually want to be, don't have qualities. But don't they stand up for the innocent and against evil? Those aren't qualities.







I do a agree that there should be limits to TV shows as most of them have dads that are idiots or not running the family, which is 100% true. What she also doesn't address is raising boys also involves a lack of male father figures in the family.



She always says "I" in the book. I want to teach the boys this. I do this with the boys, I do that with the boys. I want to raise the boys as knights. Great, well why is there no mention of her mention of her husband? She can say We. Aren't they both raising them? Isn't this something that they are doing together because they decided together? Grant it I didn't read the whole thing because I couldn't take it so something could have happened to him.



In her listing of the 10 things, she lists God first. That is great, but then says things like "Love for God also allows us to live with hope." I guess I just disagree because there is nothing about hope. At least that is me. Also "Many boys are adrift without drive, they seem lost without hope." Could you also just claim the "Many boys are drift with drive, they seem to thrive with hope."



Ok that should be enough...



Sorry just wasn't for me. I think the worst thing is I got this book from the library and it looks like it was brand new and never read. There were 6 copies at the library and I have the only one out. I guess that should tell you something and now the library thinks that at least 1 person wanted to read this...



