Are there any boy-positive books out there for infants?

CoolDEpot · 2020-11-11T01:49:21+00:00

the little Prince ? i dont even remember what its about just remember the pictures

mhelena9201 · 2020-11-11T04:51:00+00:00

Here:

https://twitter.com/LisaBritton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Boys need the encouragement:

As UCAS have repeatedly pointed out, if every male who applied to full-time undergraduate education entered, there would still be more women than men starting each year.1By the main UCAS deadline of mid-January 2016, 343,930 women and 249,790 men had applied – a difference of 94,140.2 This difference between application rates from men and women is the highest on record.

October 2018 report by Department of education (UK) showed:

For girls, half of parents thought it was very likely (50.4%) they would go to university while 3.2% thought it was not at all likely.

In contrast, for boys, 39.0% of parents thought it was very likely they would go to university and 9.5% thought it was not at all likely.

Parental perceptions of the likelihood of going to university were a strong predictor of attainment.

Similarly, what the parent wanted the young person to do after year 11 was both strongly predictive of attainment and differed between girls and boys - there was close to a 10 percentage point gap between wanting your child to continue in education (93.4% for girls compared to 83.8% for boys). Parents also talked with girls more about their future studies, which again had a positive effect on attainment.

Boys are 8 percentage points more likely than girls to regard school as a waste of time (although the figure for the UK is lower at only around 3 percentage points)

Boys spend less time reading for enjoyment: ‘in 2000, 60% of boys and 77% of girls read for enjoyment; by 2009, these percentages had dropped to 54% and 74%, respectively.’49The gap was of a similar magnitude in the UK: 51 per cent to 70 per cent.•Boys across OECD countries spend over one hour less per week on homework than girls (5.5 hours versus 4.2 hours), with the data for the UK being identical to the OECD average

Boys have a limited perception of what university is. It is associated with passive learning, sitting and listening and long

www.hepi.ac.uk43boring lectures ... there is also a view of a very narrow range of occupations – you might be a lawyer or an accountant.

women were more likely to make use of:•university-provided websites (61 per cent to 54 per cent);•formal open days (55 per cent to 49 per cent);•official prospectuses (57 per cent to 45 per cent);

the UCAS website (53 per cent to 48 per cent); and•talking to former and current students (41 per cent to 30 per cent).

smeltaway · 2020-11-11T09:44:22+00:00

Older stories (ie pre-2017) are good for this. They don't fit today's world quite as well, but at least they don't tell boys their position is to be quiet, soft and submissive while women succeed.

mikesteane · 2020-11-11T05:36:33+00:00

Traditional fairy tales as recorded by the Brothers Grimm.

Nicoloks · 2020-11-11T12:02:05+00:00

Great question. Looking forward to seeing suggestions.

dogmashah · 2020-11-11T14:18:03+00:00

Most of Curious George books edit : sorry not for infants but for toddlers

Sir_Sux_Alot · 2020-11-11T03:03:05+00:00

Baby's first word is daddy-

2020-11-12T13:27:22+00:00

Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Little Prince by St. Exupery, and Oscar Wilde's fairytales.

What's "dear boy" about?

Title	Are there any boy-positive books out there for infants?
Author	vashleigh
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Date	November 11, 2020 1:45 AM UTC (5 years ago)
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