What We’re Teaching Our Sons
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Wise and funny, touching and true, What We’re Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up.We’re teaching our sons about money; about heartbreak, and mountains, and philosophy. We’re teaching them about the big bang and the abominable snowman and what happens when you get struck by lightning. We’re teaching them about the toughness of single mothers, and the importance of having friends who’ve known you longer than you’ve known yourself, and the difference between zombies and vampires.We’re teaching them about sex, although everyone would be a lot happier if the subject had never come up…Meet the married Dads, the divorced Dads, the widowed Dads and the gay Dads; the gamblers, the firemen, the bankers, the nurses, the soldiers and the milkmen. They’re trying to guide their sons through the foothills of childhood into the bewildering uplands of adulthood. But it’s hard to know if they’re doing it right.Or what their sons’ mothers think…Wise and funny, touching and true, What We’re Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up.
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Owen Booth. What We’re Teaching Our Sons
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
The Great Outdoors
Drowning
Heartbreak
Philosophy
Work
Whales
Grandfathers
Women
Money
Geology
Sport
Emotional Literacy
Sex
Plane Crashes
The Big Bang
Ex-Girlfriends
The Loneliness of Billionaires
Crying
Europe
Empathy
Haunted Houses
Relationships
Mountains
Drugs
The Bradford Goliath
Gambling
Food
The Life-Saving Properties of Books
Crime
Glaciers
What Happens When You Get Struck by Lightning
The World’s Most Dangerous Spiders
Friendship
Single Mothers
The Conquest of the South Pole
Monsters
Romance
Nostalgia
Practical Life Skills
Teenage Girls
The Abominable Snowman
Violence
Rites of Passage
Vikings
The Particular Smell of Hospitals at Three in the Morning
The War Against the Potato Beetle
Relativity
Pirates
Hotels
The Aftermath of Disasters
Drinking
The Pointlessness of Guilt
War
The Fifteen Foolproof Approaches to Making Someone Fall in Love with You
Life
The Wonderful Colours of the Non-Neurotypical Spectrum
Martians
The Ones that Got Away
Video Games
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs
Art
Women, Again
The Importance of Good Posture and Looking After your Teeth
Fatherhood
Death
Ghosts
The Ultimate Fate of the Universe
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About the Publisher