Masterminds & Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope With Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World

from rivkat

Written by the Mean Girls author, this book covers similar ground for upper-class boys in the new millennium. The big structural things that seem different from my youth are the presence of video games as a distractor and the affordances of social media, which can create records and spread nastin...

from Debra_Armbruster

Overall, a good tool for parents, educators, and folks who work with boys. I was very excited to receive this book! As an educator, I have spent the bulk of my career working with at-risk populations and have been baffled by Boy World. It was a treat to hear from them (through Wiseman), to shed l...

from bell7

The author of Queen Bees and Wannabes takes on the world of boys, describing the way groups tend to interact and working with dozens of boy "editors" to explain what they go through - and don't always tell adults about - in their day-to-day lives. My library has a regular email that goes out that...

from japaul22

Rosalind Wiseman is, well, what is she? She's not a doctor, a psychologist, a psychiatrist, a researcher . . . her bio says she's "an internationally recognized expert on children, parenting, bullying, social justice, and ethical leadership". If any of you have heard of her, it's probably for her...

from trinker

If you have boys or work with boys, this book is a great tool. She offers suggestions for things to say in certain situations and has little sections about what not to say she calls landmines.