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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... kind of academic record that will enable him to be admitted to a presti- gious college or university eight or ten years down the road . Some parents ask teachers to recommend that their sons be held back a year so that they will be ...
... kind. We do not challenge the view of the experts that early adolescence is a time when boys, especially today, are in serious trouble. We merely want to affirm that this is the period in life when something very important, however ...
... kind of boy . Thus , they foster in him a certain negative image , an image that he thinks others ascribe to him as well . This image can be one of three : the loser , the loner , or the rebel . In general , these are not positive self ...
... kind of frenzied boiling point in the early adolescent years, either as terms of self-identification or as phrases applied to others. Born loser is usually used in a critical way, though it may, on occasion, be used sympathetically. An ...
... kind , thus isolated ; and ( 3 ) being unhappy at being alone , and thus longing for friends , company , and companionship ( based on Agnes 2001 , 845 ) . The dictionary defines the loner as a person who actually prefers to be ...