Give our active boys a break! Understand why they may not thrive sitting in the front row and raising their hand all the time...and that it's o.k.! It's natural. They would really shine in the days of yore being an apprentice or on a family farm, but that just doesn't happen anymore in modern society. This book gives insight into how our boys can thrive in a school system that really isn't designed to suit their nature. This is a must-read for Moms of boys. It's hard for us to understand their minds on a fundamental level because the male and female brains are truly different. This book really helps!

Very good resource. The school I teach in is interestingly heavy on boys and I always look for more things to do to be able to accommodate them. This book has a surprising amount of new suggestions and information for me. I always expect to have heard it all, having been in so many professional developments and read so many books in my time. It does sometimes concern me how skewed the education system is against best practices for helping boys learn. This book is a must read for parents and educators.

This is the worst kind of pseudoscience parading itself around as well researched fact. While Gurian paints a compelling picture when you scratch the surface you realize that there is only the thinnest veneer of evidence behind his claims. A book that is going to make claims about the differences in the brains and cognitive processes of boys and girls should have some pretty well substantiated research behind it. This book fails miserably on that account. While it bandies about scientific terms like cerebellum, MRI, and blood-brain barrier when looking at the references section for these claims it quickly becomes clear that there is no quality support. Gurian is not citing peer-reviewed articles from scientific journals, he is citing personal interviews and internet sources. Much of what he claims is in direct opposition to current research in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, whose research has gone through the scientific gauntlet of peer-reviewed publication.

I think this book should be a must-read for parents of boys, moms of boys, at least. I learned so much about ways boys learn and think and how it is often different from how girls learn and think. Now I can be more knowledgeable as we start the journey through school. I want to read The Wonder of Boys by this same author.

This looks at neuroscience and social sciences to show why so many boys are struggling in schools today. Some of the ideas, I believe would help girls as well who struggle and need extra attention.

The Minds of Boys had some interesting points; however, there was not enough cited research to thoroughly convince me. His ideas for smaller class sizes and more arts and mentor programs in school sound wonderful and also impossible to achieve in our cash-strapped public schools. An updated version would be useful, including research on virtual school, magnet programs with varying focuses and their results for each gender, autism, and transgender students (gay students are briefly mentioned in a few chapters).

Dry reading material so it took me awhile to finish! But gave me some good ideas to help my son succeed on his terms.

A book everyone who teaches, works with children or has boys should read! Full review coming soon!

Not fiction at all! A friend told me it was a must-read as a parent of a boy.

This is an excellent book to help parents realize what "normal" boy behavior looks like at every stage of their growing up years. Boys and girls do learn differently. Because of the strong focus our education system has on making sure girls are doing well the authors investigate the "male learning style" that is so often at odds with current educational practices, leaving the mistaken impression that boys are difficult to manage and teach.

It breaks learning down into subjects and stages. The authors give tips on how to teach boys math, language arts, science, and history when they are preschool age, elementary age, middle and high school age.

I highly recommend this book.

Good information, but repetitive after a while. Quite a bit of self-promotion, which became tedious.

3.5* The book is definitley dated and I don't agree with all of it. However, there are some good points to think about as well as strategies to support boys in education.