The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Boys: A Complete Handbook to Develop Confidence, Promote Self-esteem, And Improve Communication (Everything: Parenting and Family)

The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Boys: A Complete Handbook to Develop Confidence, Promote Self-esteem, And Improve Communication (Everything: Parenting and Family)
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Raising Twin Sons

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The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Boys: A Complete Handbook to Develop Confidence, Promote Self-esteem, And Improve Communication (Everything: Parenting and Family)
Cheryl L. Erwin
Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation
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ASIN: 1593375875

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Defining manhood in today's world is hard-and it's made raising boys even harder. Faced with conflicting images of what it means to be a man, boys need all the help they can get from their parents as they strive to become young men.
With The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Boys, parents find the authoritative handbook they need to raise their boys right, from early childhood through the teenage years. They learn how to help their sons:

Strengthen self-image and resist peer pressure

Define and exhibit acceptable behavior

Instill solid values they can apply at school and on the playing field

Honor their commitments to family, community, and themselves
Noted family therapist Cheryl L. Irwin shows parents how to create positive, supportive relationships with their sons that encourage open communication and help them establish a healthy foundation of values and goals. With patience, perseverance, and The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising Boys, parents can see their boys through those challenging developmental years, and take pride in their successful transition from boys to men.

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Raising Twin Sons.......2006-12-02

It was suggested that my husband and I read this book by our family counselor. My initial thoughts were, "Hey, every kid is different. What is a book going to tell me about my individual children," but as I read it, I found DOZENS of correlations between my two very different identical twin sons and the general findings in her research, which weren't very general at all, they were very detailed and right on. Reading this book has given me the much needed tools to sit back and ask - Are my kids misbehaving or are they acting their age? Based on that assessment, I can communicate disipline much more effectively, and I have been. Having the tools to understand our kids has decreased their frustrations with us as parents and increased our patience levels with them as toddlers.

This was an easy read and very informative. I would highly recommend it to anyone with boys in their lives.

Halfway finished and learning from this book!.......2006-08-14

I am only half finished with this book and am already so intrigued by the author's philosophy, viewpoints and straight-forwardness, especially for those of us in the dark with strong-willed toddler boys. Looking forward to reading the remainder of the book, passing along what I have highlighted to share with friends and practicing her laws of kind discipline and awareness.

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The exploits of Major Rogers during the French & Indian War. An enormous tale in every sense of the word.

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Northwest Passage.......2007-06-13

I was fourteen years old when a family friend gifted me on my birthday with Rabble in Arms in Hungarian translation. It took no little trouble and risk to locate other works by Roberts in Communist controlled Hungary. Northwest Passage was the second book by Roberts I read and this as well as all other works in Roberts 'Chronicles of Arundel' series sold me on the US. Northwest Passage is the story of revenge within the framework of the French and Indian War, a fantastic account of courage, endurance and heroism. It is also the story of one man, Major Robert Rogers; one man's life at its zenith, as he relentlessly inspires his men to superhuman performance; also at its nadir, as he descendes into debauchery, debt, and succumbs to disease. The narrator, Langdon Towne, aspiring artist, only matters insofar as he is the one,(in first person, as many of Roberts' protagonists do,) who tells the story. His viewpoint is that of a participant, not an outside observer, and this makes the story come alive even more than it otherwise would have.
It is one of Roberts' masterful works. It lost nothing in translation although I consider myself fortunate to have many of Roberts' works in their first editions.
It is my uderstanding that Roberts' works had been translated into over 52 languages. If any of those translation are as well done as the Hungarian version Roberts should be a universally celebrated and rewarded author.
Northwest Passage is true classic. Even though the movie with Spencer Tracy now seems obsolete this deserves a remake that should closely follow the book. I wouldn't recommend changing anything just go by the book. I sure would go and see it. As it is I have the book and have enjoyed reading and rereading it over the many years.

How did I miss this for so long?.......2006-01-06

I've spent a lot of time on the history surrounding the actual events of Rogers Rangers raid on the Abenaki village of Odanak in 1758. But here is a book that throws back the curtain and hurls us out the window into the midst of 18th Century America and Britain.
This is simply one of the finest historical novels out there; closely rivalling LeGrand Cannon's Look To the Mountain. Good historical escapist fun and drama.

Better in Context.......2005-04-15

Somehow I only recently got around to reading Northwest Passage, even though it is better known and deals with an earlier period in American history than than the Roberts novels on which I started, such as Arundel and Oliver Wiswell. I'm glad I waited.

Other reviewers have commented on the differences between the first and second halves of the novel. Not only are they stylistic, but the scope of the story widens dramatically in part 2. Here's where reading NWP out of order helped, though, because the other novels created a context that made the dramatic shifts more understandable than they might have been otherwise.

Without giving any spoilers, all of Roberts' usual themes are here, including betrayal, corruption, and a fairly cynical attitude towards women.

All in all, great, thrilling stuff, of a type that isn't really done any longer. Enjoy.

The Master Unsurpassed.......2003-06-22

I first discovered Northwest Passage at a library while I was still in high school, and ever since then I have been a confirmed Kenneth Roberts fan. His ability to bring the frontier and its characters alive is uncanny and unmatched by any other author I've ever read. His research into the foods, weapons, country and historical events he writes about is unparalleled, and each character in all of of his novels seems so real it sometimes becomes diffcult to determine if they were real or not. Mingling real-life historical figures such as George Washington, Benedict Arnold and others, with fictional characters such as Steven Nason, Cap Huff, and other truly unforgettable creations, lends them a credibility that results in history coming alive. One's understanding of historical events and people that have become blase' over the years is competely turned upside down and inside out as you gain new insight and understanding of what happened, why it happened and what it meant through Roberts' masterful writing backed up by exhaustive research into his subjects and events. The characters not only are drawn larger than life in all their strengths and weaknesses, but as they move through several of Roberts' novels and are observed and encountered differently when viewed from different perspectives, we begin to realize that history is not static but is dynamic and alive. Example: RABBLE IN ARMS and OLIVER WISWELL are both books about the American Revolution, but written from diametrically opposite viewpoints ! RABBLE IN ARMS follows the struggle of the colonists to free themselves from England's grip as envisioned from the rebellious colonists' perspective, while OLIVER WISWELL is about the very same events written from the perspective of a Loyalist; many of the very same characters populate both novels, but the view one gets of them is so different from one to the other of the books that it hardly seems as if at first they are about the same thing. Additionally, OLIVER WISWELL is an outstanding exploration of the Loyalist cause and why they believed we would all be better off to remain loyal subjects of England.

I've read all of Roberts' books, and have a first edition of OLIVER WISWELL purchased for $3.00 from a used bookstore with an original newspaper review that had been tucked inside the book by the original purchaser. The review is of the novel itself, and after reading that review from more than 60 years ago, it is very apparent over the years the very high and well-deserved reputation of Roberts has not diminished.

My recommendation is: read them. Read them all !! You will never find finer writing or an author with a keener appreciation of his subject matter and the period about which he writes than Kenneth Roberts. All of Roberts' books should be reprinted, again and again, as they were when they were first published (check the frontispieces to see how many times his novels have been re-printed over the years --- it's astounding!). Every person who reads Roberts becomes a devotee and a reader for life, and every one to whom you loan a copy of any of his novels will then be someone with whom you can share the pure pleasure of having read a Kenneth Roberts novel, and there are many of us out there. Welcome to the astounding, incredible world that will soon be at your fingertips!

A journey into the forgotten past.......2002-12-24

Kenneth Roberts was one of America's best-known nonfiction magazine writers back during the heyday of the Saturday Evening Post. One of his best-known articles was a profile of Hitler following the Beer Hall Putsch, which became a book in its own right at a time when no one in America knew who Hitler was.

Beginning in the mid-1930s, Roberts wrote a series of brilliant but erratic historical novels about America in the late 1700s, set in his beloved Maine or in neighboring Boston and Portsmouth, NH. "Northwest Passage" (which was serialized by the Post) was his masterpiece and the most popular book in America for two years during the 1930s, although it's barely remembered today (or, if remembered, known only as the source for a mediocre Spencer Tracy movie of the same name).

The book is the story of a real person, Major Robert Rogers, a miltary leader from pre-Revolutionary America whose unit, Rogers' Rangers, was America's first to fight "Indian-style" (in other words, to fight battles the way we fight them today). Rogers' great success in warfare led to him becoming one of the colonies' first published authors, a star in London, and later the royal governor of Michilimackinac (the fort at the tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan ... and the land westward), but his unwillingness to join with pluderers who wanted to loot the British and colonial treasuries in the name of the Crown led to his arrest and unwarranted disgrace ... and to his ultimate decision to side with the British during the American Revolution, like Roberts' other main hero, Benedict Arnold ("Arundel" and "Rabble in Arms").

This novel is made up of two very different but intricately-plotted books. Book 1, which ranges in place from Harvard College to the British Army during the French and Indian Wars and the New England art world, tells the story of a young man, Langdon Towne, who becomes Rogers' personal secretary during Rogers' Rangers' expedition to destroy the town of St. Francis, home of the native group most hostile to the New England settlers. Book 2, which begins in London, crosses back to upstate Michigan and the Dakota lands, and then returns to London, tells the story of Towne's advancement as an artist and his involvement with Rogers' plan to discover the Northwest Passage.

The reason that this book rates 4 stars instead of 5 has to do with a writing issue that must be mentioned. Roberts' friend Booth Tarkington served as "editor" of the first three-quarters of the book, and the Roberts-Tarkington prose is stellar. However, under severe time pressure to finish the second half of the book (due to its smash-hit status), Roberts wrote the last quarter without Tarkington's help, and the change in writing quality is jarring -- especially as it comes right during the most historically-important and dramatically-important section of the book, Rogers' betrayal by his Northwest Passage expedition commanders and by his British and American enemies. Roberts had offered Tarkington co-writing credit, which Tarkington refused, but this justaposition of styles shows just how critical Tarkington's help was. The plot continues smoothly, though, even if the writing doesn't.

One more point: in researching and writing this book, Roberts uncovered (after two years of searching, and just before publication of Book 2) the actual court-marshal transcripts of the two court-marshals with which Rogers was involved, which were believed to have been destroyed by Rogers' enemies -- and both supported Roberts' sympathetic treatment of Rogers. Thus, not only was this book incredibly popular, but it was significant for historical research as well. What more can you ask from one book?

Robert Rogers of the Rangers
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Robert Rogers of the Rangers
John R. Cuneo
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ASIN: 1846770025

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'The thrilling true account of a famous woodsman, scout & guerilla leader during the formative years of the American Nation' In the evocative pages of Rogers own journal we are taken through a landscape of dark untrodden forest where danger from hostile Indians and the French Army threaten every step. Famous exploits of guerilla warfare are graphically told, including battles and ambushes on America's lakes, the devastating 'Fight on Snowshoes' and the raid against the Abanakee's village at St, Francis, recounted across time by Rogers himself.

To Fight With Intrepidity: The Complete History of the U.S. Army Rangers 1622 to Present

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Intriguing and Inspiring story
LTC Lock reveals lessons for today's light infantry
Review from a Ranger perspective
Valuable information, but a ghodawful prose style
A great book on what it means to be brave

To Fight With Intrepidity: The Complete History of the U.S. Army Rangers 1622 to Present
John D. Lock
Manufacturer: Pocket
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ASIN: 0671015281

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Ranger qualified Lieutenant Colonel John Lock provides the first complete chronicle of the elite U.S. Army Rangers in this second, revised edition.

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Intriguing and Inspiring story.......2007-01-28

Whether you are currently a Ranger or aspiring to become one at some point in the future; whether you served in the military or are a military enthusiast, "To Fight With Intrepidity" is a great read. You will find it has detailed information on the formation and evolution of the Rangers in a way that keeps you interested without any extra marketing fluff. It is the story alone - one that will let you come face to face with men who lived and died, some even before the birth of the United States. But you will make a connection with these men, and come to understand and appreciate their valor and sacrifices, and realize their validity in our day and age.

LTC Lock reveals lessons for today's light infantry.......2000-08-13

LTC Lock has done in a compact form a BDU pocket-sized complete history of the U.S. Army Rangers, this quantification is usually what we praise, but we forget the quality of his writing when he does this. We need to realize what is it that we want to learn from Army Ranger history other than the predictable HOOAH! stuff?

LTC Lock in his book reveals an aspect of light infantry operations we simply do not understand today with our men turned into pack mules with "100 pounds of lightweight equipment". Read his accounts of Roger's Rangers and you will see a light infantry that could "fly" on its feet through the woods and outfight the Indians. The recent film, "Last of the Mohicans" best captures this capability. This was a Ranger infantry that was willing to use unusual mobility means, also---boats, ice skates, snow shoes, living off the land--all to get that mobility edge over the enemy. In WWII, Darby used speed-marches and carts to carry mortars/ammo to close on enemies rapidly to gain surprise/violence of action. Merrill's Marauders used mules to carry 75mm pack howitzers and supplies to penetrate deep into the jungles of Burma and take Myitkyina airfield from the jungle-seasoned Japanese. In Five major (WALAWBUM, SHADUZUP, INKANGAHTAWNG, NHPUM GA, & MYITKYINA) and thirty minor engagements, they defeated the veteran soldiers of the Japanese 18th Division (Conquerors of Singapore and Malaya) who vastly outnumbered the Marauders. Always moving to the rear of the main forces of the Japanese, the Marauders completely disrupted the enemy supply and communication lines, and climaxed their behind the lines operations with the capture of Myitkyina Airfield, the only all-weather airfield in Northern Burma.

Theese lessons need to be applied to today's light infantry that is still over-looking the capability modern mountain bikes and carts with oversized tires could give an Airborne Ranger-type force to close on an enemy after insertion out of detection range by parachute/airlanding aircraft.

My only fault with the book is that it doesn't clearly lay-out the roles/missions dilemma current Ranger infantry is in---it really has 2 types of missions:

1.) on one hand its America's shock troops storming defended high-value targets alone or as a spearhead for other troops (WWII Commando mindset),

2.)on the other, it has to be able to "Range" across the land as light infantry for days at a time to raid/recon (traditional Ranger missions).

These two missions are different and require different mindsets and equipment---and this is why TF Ranger in Somalia did not have armored fighting vehicles--because it was not seen as appropriate for "Rangers to do mech" if one was defining the unit by traditional roles/missions. However, shock troops need shock action and that means Armored Fighting Vehicles (AFVs) and shielded men, which Rangers lead the U.S. military by employing for the first time rifle-caliber resstant body armor and having the physical conditioning and willingness to take Soldier's load risks to go into battle with it. AFVs are not popular in the minds of some Rangers, but its necessary to successfully perform shock action missions in urbanized terrain. Other elite units in the world can ride AFVs without their image suffering. Walking is not always the best way to "range" across the battlefield, as Ranger gun-jeeps, RSOVs (Land Rovers) and HMMWVs attest from combat in Iran (Desert 1), Grenada (airlanded from C-130s), Panama (parachute air-dropped) and Iraq (Desert Storm). But these are unarmored vehicles not up to the task of advancing in the face of concentrated enemies and their fire. LTC Lock in his superb chapter on the Mogadishu raid expertly outlines why Rangers should have had armored vehicles and that they would have prevented 1-18 men dying that day. His Somalia chapter is as good as Bowden's entire book, "Blackhawk Down!" and in some ways better---because it doesn't mince words and gets to the point that AFVs were needed in the force structure.

If America's light infantry forces would look back via LTC Lock's fine book into its methodology of Roger's Rangers; it will find the mindset needed to make it the most mobile and hardest-hitting infantry on earth that can range across the terrain quick enough to defeat the stalemate sensors and optics will create against a slower moving force. If these forces will understand that as Col Daniel Bolger states in Death Ground: America's Infantry in battle: "Ranger tabs don't stop bullets", and accept a modest number of air-droppable and helicopter transportable light tracked AFVs into its force structure for its own organic shielded mobility and heavy firepower, it will have learned well from its Somalian ordeals and be ready to lead the way! into the 21st century.

Review from a Ranger perspective.......2000-03-31

Ranger units have always put tremendous emphasis on history and tradition as an aspect of pride in duty, and that's where this work has real value. Academic critique from recreational readers won't reflect this --it's just another book; however; Rangers and men in the Special Ops business out there will see much deeper meaning in it. If you want to take pride in wearing the beret a step further (whether today or years ago), read Lock's book. There are nearly four centuries of tradition behind the Ranger Creed and Roger's Standing Orders: Learn the history.

Valuable information, but a ghodawful prose style.......2000-01-27

It used to be that the U.S. military turned out officers who could write decently. Apparently this is either no longer the case -- or the Rangers tend to draw their officers from that portion of the corps which consists largely of people who can't even write a decent field manual. Major Lock is one of these officers, and TO FIGHT WITH INTREPIDITY suffers badly because the publisher of this book didn't assign someone to edit Major Lock's manuscript as thoroughly as it needed to be. This notwithstanding, Major Lock's book is an uniquely well-researched and enormously valuable source of information on the history of the Rangers in America and the Ranger units of the U.S. Army in the wars and other armed conflicts of the 20th Century. I find this book a valuable addition to my library despite the fact that it reads like a badly translated copy of a textbook from the Frunze Academy, and I would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone interested in the history of the U.S. Army's development and employment of light infantry forces.

A great book on what it means to be brave.......1999-10-23

This book cover the hundreds of years that the Army Rangers or similar units have been fighting with tremendous bravery. Lock begins in the French and Indian War with Rogers' Rangers and continues all the way to the Rangers exploits in Somalia in 1993. Overall, it is a very fascinating book involving many fascinating - but unknown - heroes. Just to be a Ranger is to be a hero, and Lock shows that very well. The only complaint is he goes on for far too long on the French and Indian War. This is not all bad, though. Although that war is considered boring, he shows the incredible bravery of Rogers and his men. Despite the outdated war, bravery of men is still very modern. I would read this book again if I had the patience to read 400 pages of the same material again.

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Journals of Major Robert Rogers

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Journals by the commander of the British "Rogers' Rangers" from 1755-1761. Originally published in 1765.

Journals of Major Robert Rogers (Great Americana)

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Robert Rogers
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New Jersey in the French and Indian Wars, 1755-1761 (The journals of Major Robert Rogers)

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Robert Rogers
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Robert Rogers and the Rangers
John R. Cuneo
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Robert Rogers: Rogers' Rangers and the French and Indian War (The Library of American Lives and Times)

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The life of Robert Rogers of "Rogers' Rules for Ranging"

Robert Rogers: Rogers' Rangers and the French and Indian War (The Library of American Lives and Times)
Jennifer Quasha
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The life of Robert Rogers of "Rogers' Rules for Ranging".......2004-11-24

Despite the success of Michael Mann's remake of "The Last of the Mohicans," the French and Indian War has continued to be one of the American wars that people tend to forget about. This is probably because the war, which began anywhere in between 1660 and 1689 but ended in 1763, was fought before there was a United States of America. One notable effort against the tide of indifference with regards to that particular part of American history is Jennifer Quasha's juvenile biography of Robert Rogers for the Library of American Lives and Times series.

"Robert Rogers: Rogers' Rangers and the French and Indian War" indicates that this is the story of a military leader, but young readers will probably be surprised to learn that Rogers institutionalized many frontier-style practices of warfare that became the model for the activities of later ranger groups. Having served briefly as scout for the British in King George's War, Rogers formed the group that would become known as Rogers' Rangers in 1756, a 600-man group of frontiersmen clad in green, personally recruited by Rogers.

While Quasha makes it clear Rogers was not the originator of many of the fighting techniques he ended up popularizing, he did set them down, and the back of this volume includes the 29 points making up "Rogers' Rules for Ranging," first written down in 1757 (e.g., #4, "Some time before you come to the place you would reconnoiter, make a stand and send one or two men in whom you can confide, to look out the best ground for making your observations"). Young readers will learn how Rogers insisted on giving his soldiers intensive training, including exposing them to live fire exercises, so that he had a highly mobile force that could live off the land during missions and campaigns.

Quasha tells how Rogers was born in a frontier town in Massachusetts and grew up learning how to fight in the wildernesses of North America like the Native Americans did. After covering the formation of Rogers' Rangers, the book looks at the major engagements and campaigns during the French and Indian War that they participated in, such as the Battle on Showshoes, the Big Push North, the attack on St. Francis, and taking the fight to the French in Canada. Rogers was also something of an exploring, trying to discover the Northwest Passage after the war was over.

Young readers will understand exactly why Rogers has the reputation he does as a military leaders. What will surprise them, is that while Rogers was born in America he never became an American: because George Washington refused his services during the Revolution, Rogers found for the British, and ended up dying in London after the American Revolution was over. This is rather ironic given that the style of fighting that he championed is considered to be uniquely American, derived from the skilled woodsmen that were already here, and standing in start contrast to the British devotion to marching in straight lines while wearing bright red coats.

This book is lavishly illustrated with contemporary maps, paintings, and etchings, as well as photographs of some of the places and things covered. In addition to the appendix providing "Rogers' Rules of Ranging," the back of the book includes a rather detailed Timeline of Rogers' life, a Glossary of words from "allies" to "whipping post," Additional Resources, a Bibliography, and Index. So those who become interested in this larger than life hero will be able to find out more about one of the few American heroes who was never an American.

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Augustus Lynch Mason
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