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Wild Things by Stephen James & David Thomas
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Wild Things

The Art of Nurturing Boys

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Narrator David Colacci

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Length 10 hours 29 minutes
Language English
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Playing off the themes in the Caldecott Medal–winning children's book Where the Wild Things Are, this informative, practical, and encouraging guide will help parents guide boys down the path to healthy and authentic manhood. Wild Things addresses the physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of a boy, written by two therapists who are currently engaged in clinical work with boys and their parents and who are also fathers raising five sons. This book contains chapters such as "Sit Still! Pay Attention!," "Deficits and Disappointments," and "Rituals, Ceremonies, and Rites of Passage."

Stephen James is a private practice psychotherapist in Nashville, Tennessee, where he provides individual, couples, and group therapy as well as organizational and leadership consulting. He received his MA in counseling from the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and his BA in English from Belmont University. He has published numerous articles and has coauthored several books, including How to Hit a Curveball, Grill the Perfect Steak, and Become a Real Man.

David Thomas, LMSW, is the director of family counseling at Daystar Counseling in Nashville, Tennessee. He has coauthored several books, including Becoming a Dad, and is a frequent guest on national television and radio. He and his wife, Connie, have a daughter, two sons, and a fiesty yellow lab puppy named Owen.

David Colacci has been an actor and a director for over thirty years, performing coast-to-coast in lead roles of plays by a variety of playwrights, from Shakespeare to Sam Shepard to Steve Martin. He has worked as a narrator for over fifteen years, during which time he has read the works of such authors as Jules Verne, Henry Adams, John Irving, Michael Chabon, and John Lescroart. He has won AudioFile Earphones Awards, earned Audie nominations, and been included in Best of the Year lists by such publications as Publishers Weekly, AudioFile magazine, and Library Journal. David was a resident actor/director with the Cleveland Play House for eight years and has been artistic director of the Hope Summer Rep Theater since 1992. He currently lives in New York with his wife, narrator and actress Susan Ericksen, and his children, Mario and Elena.

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"This worthy, engaging owner's manual on boys aged two to 22 is written from a reserved, supportive Christian perspective." ---Library Journal Expand reviews
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