Raising Boys Through the Years They Go Quiet

Your son used to tell you everything. Now you get one-word answers and a closed door.

Pediatrician and bestselling author Dr. Cara Natterson (Decoding Boys, The Care and Keeping of You) joins Dr. Sheryl to explain what's actually happening inside a boy's brain in the years before puberty shows up anywhere you can see it. They get into testosterone's real effect on the brain, the first time a boy encounters porn, what body image actually looks like for boys (it's not the script parents already know from raising girls), and the groundwork parents can lay years before their son is old enough to make the kind of decision that ends up in the news.

Natterson also breaks down what moms specifically get wrong about their sons, and who else - dad, a coach, an uncle - needs to be in the room for these conversations.

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