short essay 3
Short Essays
1. Dobson provides a lot of tips and advice to parents who are raising boys in Bringing Up Boys. Choose one or two pieces of advice that stand out to you. If you are a man, talk about whether your parents implemented this piece of advice in how they raised you. How did that influence your development? If your parents did not use the advice you picked out, how do you think using that may have influenced your development or relationship with your parents? If you are a woman, try to put yourself into the mindset of a man and answer these questions to the best of your ability based on the reading.
2. In chapter 3 of Bringing Up Boys, Dobson talks about the physiological factors in males. How does testosterone influence male development throughout his life? Also discuss serotonin and the amygdala and how they affect masculinity.