Meg Meeker

Jan 2024 - 'I don't feel this book is harmful in any way, but it does lack scientific proof, and the author states her experiences and opinions as fact. I did find she overstated and over emphasized the differences between boys and girls to a point where it felt exaggerated. A lot of the advice to moms could be true of raising girls as well. For instance, science shows both boys and girls need secure relationships with a mother who listens, so they will talk. Yet she portrays this as a mom-boy thing. With that in mind, this book will help moms parent both their Sons and Daughters.'… (mer)

The beginning of this book brought tears to my eye. Meg brought some really touching stories / secrets to the light. The last half of the book was more preachy and fizzled out for me.

The book did make me wonder about looking from a "harder" or "softer" angle. Sometimes, you can be hard on yourself to do better or you can be soft on yourself and say you're perfectly fine the way you are.

Unlike the books, I've been reading lately, this book falls in the harder category specifically calling out fathers to do better.… (mer)