boys adrift: The FIVE FACTORS DRIVING the GROWING EPIDEMIC of UNMOTIVATED BOYS and UNDERACHIEVING YOUNG MEN by Leonard Sax, MD, PhD.In this book the author provides compelling evidence that
- changes in how school is structured,
- the pervasiveness of video games,
- medications for ADHD,
- environmentally based biomedical changes, and
- cultural changes
have combined to work against the success of boys/men in today's American society.
The book is a good read for any parent, if for no other reason than to just keep abreast of the current zeitgeist. But more importantly, it can offer an improved understanding of the troubling phenomenon of how our really great young men are not living up to their potential without resorting to the blaming/shaming fall-back of "they are just lazy."
The book is a good read for any parent, if for no other reason than to just keep abreast of the current zeitgeist. But more importantly, it can offer an improved understanding of the troubling phenomenon of how our really great young men are not living up to their potential without resorting to the blaming/shaming fall-back of "they are just lazy."
