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...trauma: premature separation from their well-meaning mothers. Fearful that maintaining a close connection will result in the shaming of their sons (name calling from peers, disapproval from adults), mothers disconnect, usually by the time their boys are five or six. When boys feel ashamed of their dependence on Mom, when they are discouraged from emotional expression, they withdraw, creatively and psychically. They become lost...
Gurian concedes that a solid relationship with Mom is important during infancy and early childhood. But by age 10 or so, boy raising should largely be a man's game, where values such as honor, compassion, integrity and respect for women are handed down with discipline and understanding. The ability to talk about feelings is worth striving for, but boys don't come to it naturally. Besides, there are other, equally important ways of achieving intimacy...
...book) led him to conclude that boys will eagerly communicate in a supportive environment. Gurian's all for connection, but primarily in the form of male bonding--with coaches, teachers, scout leaders, friends. What boys need, he says, are clans. And rituals of any kind--from dinners with Mom to ball games with Dad--should happen regularly as part of a life in which parents stay in closer touch with their kids...
...most doctors--in the U.S. at least--argue that walking during labor is just a fad. It's much safer, they say, for the expectant mom to take to her hospital bed immediately, where the risk of falling is low and it is easier to monitor the baby...
...right? "We found that the truth was somewhere in between," says Dr. Steven Bloom, an obstetrician at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the lead author of the study. Bloom and his colleagues examined 1,067 moms-to-be with routine pregnancies and randomly divided them into a group who walked during the first stage of labor and another group who stayed in bed. To their surprise, the researchers found that walking didn't shorten the labor or reduce the need for pain killers, nor did it lower the rate of C-sections. But a full...