Ars Technica examines “The Trouble with Boys” by Peg Tyre.  The book postulates:

“Boys get expelled from preschool at four times the rates of girls,” she writes. “They are prescribed the lion’s share of ADHD medication, they get most of the C’s and D’s in middle school, and they drop out of high school more than girls. Currently, only 43% of undergraduates in the United States are men.” So what’s the solution? Tyre’s suggestion is simple enough: let boys be boys by simply letting them engage in the aggressive fantasies that come to them naturally.

As a result, “we’re in this place—as a culture—where smart, right-thinking parents discourage their sons from violence,” Tyre said. “It’s perfectly normal for little boys to think and talk around violence; it doesn’t mean they’re going to be violent.”

It sounds like a book that I will have to read & review…..

Keeping violent media away from boys could be a bad idea – Ars Technica.