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 The Dangerous Book for Boys :: 0061243582
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The bestselling book for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is. In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun--building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes. The completely revised American Edition includes: The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know
Stickball
Slingshots
Fossils
Building a Treehouse
Making a Bow and Arrow
Fishing (revised with US Fish)
Timers and Tripwires
Baseball's "Most Valuable Players"
Famous Battles-Including Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, and Gettysburg
Spies-Codes and Ciphers
Making a Go-Cart
Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary
Girls
Cloud Formations
The States of the U.S.
Mountains of the U.S.
Navigation
The Declaration of Independence
Skimming Stones
Making a Periscope
The Ten Commandments
Common US Trees
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Author: Guest
Teachers will find great tips for dealing with troublesome boys in their classes, and parents will find some great activities sure to interest their sons.
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Author: Guest
I often get rambunctious boys who dominate the classroom. This book can be used by a teacher to chill the homes.
American readers will be offput by its British Empire Fun Fair tone but I teach in a former colony.
We need not trash "the politically correct" to like this book. It adds and does not detract from the feminist conversation because, "oppression of girls" should not create a new oppression of the high spirits, the rambunctiousness, the courage, and the instinctive sense of honour of boys.
Use this book to get the lads on parade. If they are tossing chip butties about the classroom, enter roaring right you lot, slam this book upon the desk, open it up and in a loud voice read to them right, today we shall learn to hunt, and kill, and eat a rabbit with a gun.
This may be done with gun in hand in many American towns, but it is best to leave the gun at home elsewhere.
The girls need not feel left out for there is a fundamental asymmetry between the reactions of girls to a book marked for boys, and of boys to a book marked for girls: for girls, as a section of the book tells us in appropriate language, are mysterious and full of fancy lights on the inside, and it is well for the lad to enter what the Freud chap called the latency phase. Whereas girls have a necessary interest in the outside world of moors, and rabbits and the sea.
As it is, in the US and the UK, altogether too many boys are being railroaded towards Prison Planet by an overgentrified educational system, that reflects no true "political correctness", if we understand "political correctness" to be the code of the person who, like the Victorian ideal gentleman, would not harm others unnecessarily and only seeks to generalize this for the modern world, but instead a disgustingly middle class silence on the realities of life.
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Author: Guest
Reading this was a breath of fresh air. It reminded me of the things that I did when I grew up. This was before the PC movement launched a war on boys being boys, and gender neutral toys.
Despite gender neutral teachings boys' software is as different from that of girls as is their hardware. There are certain things that interest boys and certain things that interest girls. No matter how you rig your gender neutral studies, it will never change.
If you have a young boy and want him to be raised as a boy then buy this book. I have many scars on my body, some small and some large. All of them are like little notch marks on my way to growing up. None of them are regretted or resented.
The only sad thing about this is that kids need to learn this kind of stuff in a book instead of from older brothers or friends like we did in the old days. That is how thorough and near complete the feminists' war on boyhood has been.
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Author: Guest
Now this is what childhood was like when I was a kid!
It used to be that if you were a boy, it was expected for you to carry a pocketknife and know how to use it. Guess what? Neither I nor none of my friends ever got seriously hurt because of it. And we were more mature, more level-headed because of it, plus we had fun with those little knives!
Of course the way schools are nowadays, kids carrying knives is not as practical as it was 25 years ago, but the basic principle still applies. American kids need the exercise from being outdoors moving around, and they need the mental development of making stuff with their hands and imagination. Treehouses are the stuff future architects are born from. Catapults launch future engineers.
Kids today don't have a clue how boring their entertainment really is, compared to the old days before video games. Buy them this book, and let them see what they've been missing!
And parents, don't worry! It's not really dangerous at all! You survived, didn't you?
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Author: Guest
I just bought this book for my son, who is 8, after reading a review in the London Times. It is a great book! It covers all the fun things like how to make a paper airplane, build a tree house, and tie knots, as well as things like grammar and history. I read through the book last night; the section on 'Girls' cracked me up! We have the UK edition, so the history bits are British centric, but this may be different in a US edition. Either way, I'd still recommend it. Buy it for your boys, but read it yourself. Those knots may come in useful some day!
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