Losers, Loners, and Rebels: The Spiritual Struggles of BoysWestminster John Knox Press, 01/01/2007 - 204 من الصفحات The early years of adolescence are a tumultuous time, full of challenges and opportunities that can shape one's whole life. In recent years several books have analyzed this period of life for girls, but this is the first book that investigates the interior life of boys as they develop their sense of self and begin the spiritual journey that will carry them throughout their lives. The authors contend that adolescent boys often experience themselves at various times as losers, loners, and rebels. As self-defined losers, boys begin to realize self-awareness; as loners they begin to understand their own relatedness to the larger world; as rebels they gain a sense of self-sufficiency. Through these common experiences of life, boys gain self-awareness, self-transcendence, and self-sufficiency, concepts that take root in the spirituality that will last their lifetime. |
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... failure , and difficulties with emotional commitment . But what this absence also does is provide boys with a warped model of parenting — one that teaches them that it's acceptable not to have a father who “ stays in the picture ...
... failure or defeat in one area of his life to enable him to turn his attention to some other area that will have more enduring interest and appeal. In our schema, however, the most important benefit that losing and even experiencing ...
... of a Salesman on Broadway in 1999 , there is something contagious or contaminating about the loser , putting him beyond even “ the blessing of God ” : The whole idea of people failing with us is that 30 Losers , Loners , and Rebels.
... failure. (Sandage 2005, 277) We grow anxious around the loser, fearing that whatever led him to fail may also rub off on us. This fear of guilt by association—here more likely shame by association— has become a familiar companion as I ...
... failure include nerd , dork , dweeb , geek , wimp , freak , jerk , slacker , weirdo , and even fag . “ Loser ... failure in some- one's life , usually in some business enterprise , not to the nature of that per- son's character ...