Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood, and the Search for Meaning by Barbara A. Kerr, Sanford J. Cohn

This book provides everyone who does not live with a gifted child, girl or boy an understanding of the challenges the gifted experience as children and as adults. The focus is mainly on boys but the writer talks often of her fisrt study and book on "Smart Girls: A New Psychology of Girls Women and giftedness." For me there were to many study quotes. Meaning this study said this and that one said something else. Studies are not children or even gifted children. This book would be great for young parents of gifted childern and teachers new to gifted children.
It did make promises it could not keep. Guidance to parents on how to nurture gifted boys and overcome their particular challenges, including ambivalence about their gifts and concerns about masculinity. However the stories do make readers aware that we are not all the same and that our individual nature needs to be nourished.
The book is a fast read. There are many!!! personal and collective stories that all males--gifted in a variety of ways and from vaiour backgrounds experience as they struggle to become themselves. These to me were a bit meaningless. We all have struggle of some kind in our lives. We are all human as far as I can tell. It also tells of the impact giftedness has on boys both in academics, athletics and with social adjustment. I was disapointed in the book the back cover real mislead me.
The price for this book on Amozon is $16.80. But I checked it out at my local library and I'm glad for that. But as Reading Rainbow says "Don't take my word for it, go check it out for yourself"!