As a guide as to how to tackle the big issues, this book will give you plenty of pointers. It will also help you address your own parenting style, and illustrates how these concerns about your own capabilities and your concerns for your children are always going to be closely related.

Dr Tim Hawke has a very measured and compassionate way of addressing his audience and its a relief to read that many of the issues we face when parenting boys are universal, and are being addressed every day by parents the world over. Sometimes successfully. sometimes not!