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	• Raising Cain: Exploring the Inner Lives of America's Boys PBS (Direct), 2006 average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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the lost boys

Wow! I don't have kids but I stumbled across this at the library and thought it might be interesting. I found it to be right there verging on incredible.

True... true... true... you'll find yourself thinking this over and over throughout this documentary. Don't let yourself think this is just an angry, harsh critique of the USA. I know some people don't like that. The tone isn't angry at all. This is an honest exploration into the emotional lives of boys, from preschool to highschool. Or more precisely, the lack of emotional lives that so much of American society tries to impose on its boys and men. It's somewhere between inspiring and saddening.

In the younger aged sections, I thought the Japanese study/footage was incredible. I won't bother to go into it here, but that alone would have been worth the rental. I'm still of the mindset that I don't want to have kids but were I even considering it strongly, this would be a permanent part of my dvd collection before conception.

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Mandatory Viewing

Before infant boys are released to their parents, hospitals should make it mandatory that both parents view this outstanding film.
I had my niece watch this film and she was impressed with the information she got from the video. She told me that it helped her to understand why her son was so different from girls. She also had her husband view it and he said he understood why their son preferred his mother emotional support more and that he would be there for him when he came into puberty.
With the schools attempt to feminize boys (the only way that would succeed is to emasculate them),there should be mandatory classroom instruction for teachers before they can get their credentials. All parents should insist that what's suggested by the film be implemented in all segment of our culture so we can stop the bleeding that alienated boys have caused to their fellow beings.
There are other media that parents should read or view. There's institutional abuse (book-Harmful to Minors), parents who are more focused on themselves rather than their children (Norwegian film - Lakki, The Boy who could Fly).
Teenagers have a difficult enough time what with bullying in schools, lack of personal privacy at home, and many others that make life very difficult for teenagers.
I wish Michael Thompson had gone into boys emerging puberty on the subject of sex that was dealt with in the French film 'Murmur of the Heart'.

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very interesting

parents of boys can definitely benefit from this film--reinforces what we know about how they learn.

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Enlightening

Very good companion to the book. The DVD allows you to put faces and names to the concepts discussed in the book. Plus if your pressed for time you can go to the DVD first and then read the book later.

Alex's mom

This dvd is wonderful! I have a 5 year old son and am just realizing how different boys are from girls. This dvd really helps explain how boys learn and grow. My son loves playing sword games, star wars, power rangers, etc. I used to have a hard time understanding why and this dvd really does a good job of explaining all of that. Definitely worth buying!

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Raising Cain is a 2-hour PBS documentary that explores the emotional development of boys in America today. Our guide in the program is child psychologist Michael Thompson, PhD, one of America's leading experts on boys. His book on the emotional lives of boys, "Raising Cain," with co-author Dan Kindlon, was a New York Times bestseller. Raising Cain explores the lives of boys from birth through high school through powerful documentary stories about real boys. The hallmark of the program is Michael Thompson's in-depth interviews and interactions with these boys. The interviews reveal the challenges and confusion that boys encounter while growing up in America. In addition, Michael Thompson models ways for parents, educators and counselors to engage boys and help them bring their inner lives to the surface.

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