The Mama's Boy Myth by Kate Stone Lombardi

The Mama's Boy Myth by Kate Stone Lombardi

A radical reexamination of the mother-and-son relationship that advocates the end of the mama's boy taboo.

Mothers get the message early and often--push your sons away. Don't keep them emotionally bound to you. Back off, because boys need to learn to stand on their own. It is as if there were an existing playbook--based on gender role preconceptions dating back to Freud, Oedipus, and beyond--that prescribes the way mothers and their sons should interact.

Kate Stone Lombardi, an award-winning journalist who has written for the New York Times for more than twenty years, persuasively argues that much of the entrenched wisdom about mothers and sons is hopelessly outdated. Highlighting new research, The Mama's Boy Myth reveals that boys who are close to their mothers are happier, more secure, and enjoy stronger connections with their friends and ultimately their spouses. With revealing interviews and moving case studies, Lombardi argues that the rise of the new male--one who is more emotionally intelligent and sensitive without being less manly--is directly attributable to women who reject the mama's boy taboo.

Kate Stone Lombardi has contributed to The New York Times for the last twenty years. Her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Reader s Digest, Parenting, Time.com and Ladies Home Journal. She has won six Clarion Awards for journalism from Women in Communications. A graduate of Williams College with an MS in journalism from Columbia University, Lombardi is the mother of two adult children and lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband, Michael.

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ISBN 13	9781583334577
ISBN 10	1583334572
Title	The Mama's Boy Myth
Author	Kate Stone Lombardi
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2012-03-15
Number of pages	336
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