Teenage Boys and Emotion

When my son was a teenager, this book was a great source of comfort and wisdom to me. In fairness to Patrick, I do have to acknowledge that he was an easy and delightful teenager who has grown into a lovely man - but this didn't seem to stop me from panicking!

Celia Lashlie spent time listening to teenage boys and discovered some useful information. Here is a quote:

'In time I came to understand that the idea of not needing to talk about some difficult or stressful situation wasn't part of a male conspiracy to keep information away from women - at least not always. Sometimes it is true that males - both adolescent boys and adult men - don't want or need to talk. They just want time to let the conflicting emotions settle until they can make some sense of them and get a grip on what they are feeling. Unlike me, they don't work out what they are feeling by talking about it - they work it out  - and then sometimes - talk about it.'