The Mama's Boy Myth : Why Keeping Our Sons Close Makes Them Stronger (Paperback)

from rabidreader

Lombardi's book is the first I've read that addresses this issue. When my children, who are now in their mid to late twenties, were young I read about every parenting book I could get my hands on, but I don't believe I even saw titles addressing this issue "back then". The Mama's Boy Myth startle...

from quaintlittlehead

In this short and readable work, Kate Stone Lombardi challenges the unspoken assumption that close bonds between mothers and sons damage the men those sons become. Drawing on a series of interviews and recent research studies, the author points out the disparity between the lack of taboo surround...

from Carolfoasia

"What today's mothers are doing for their sons -- primarily teaching them emotional intelligence -- is a critically important gift. Mothers, by affording their sons the emotional closeness that they once offered only to daughters, are giving them access to a fuller experience of humanity." (p.9-1...

from bluelotus28

I found Kate Lombardi's book to be an interesting read. I think that it was fairly well researched, and an interesting assessment of some of our cultures gender politics. I would agree that a close relationship between a mother and son does not automatically make the son into a "sissy" or a weake...

from N.Robinson

Author Kate Stone Lombardi knocks a hole in the theory that a tight mother-son bond is detrimental to the son's development in her book The Mama's Boy Myth: Why Keeping Our Sons Close Makes Them Stronger. Lombardi seamlessly blends interviews of mothers, sons, and experts to show that not only is...