Secure Daughters Confident Sons

Packed with research-based insights and practical tools, this enlightening book explores why gender plays such a vital role in raising children to healthy manhood and womanhood.

“Boy or girl?” It’s the most common question every expectant or new parent hears, underscoring the fact that gender is a core component of every person’s understanding of self and also key to how others view them. Parents need to know how gender identity influences a child’s development as well as their own parenting style, so they can help budding young men and women navigate their way to gender-healthy adulthood. This book explores the important questions related to raising children with a healthy sense of their own masculinity or femininity, clears up cultural confusion surrounding the hot-button topic of gender, exposes the dangers of stereotypes, and reveals how moms and dads each play a vital role in shaping their child’s understanding of what it means to be a man or a woman.