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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-47423994-1', 'fortunecity.ws'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <center> <br> <div> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=728&height=90"></script> </div> </center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0ab78780.gif" border=0 width="120" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="REAL BOYS"><U>Real Boys Main Page</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Summary"><U>Summary</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Page Links</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#A6CAF0" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B><U>Summary</U></B>    </div> <bR> <div>     Beginning with the early socialization with boys as toddlers, Bill Pollack, a member of the Harvard University faculty, communicates the pain and problems that boys must face in today's society. The importance that is placed on the "Boy Code" by our culture has led to the masking of feelings by boys, so that they will fit into the gender stereotypes that have been followed by past generations.</div> <div>     Today, boys are expected to be manly but empathetic, cool but open, and strong but still vulnerable. These mixed messages that boys have to deal with daily have an adverse effect on their emotional health and their behaviors.</div> <div>     In <U>Real Boys</U>, Pollack believes that the best way to save our sons from a fate similar to Shakespeare's Hamlet, is to revise the boy code and to stay connected with our sons as they mature. Also, the need to raise the awareness for more boy-friendly class rooms and better parent education of the needs that boys have are all part of Pollack's ideas of saving the boys of today from societies pressures and stigmas.</div> <div>     "<U>Real Boys</U> is a blend of the scholarly and the homey, the practical and the conceptual; it is thought provoking and just plain useful." - Mary Pipher. </div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0b6946d0.gif" border=0 width="148" height="109" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>