What Were Teaching Our Sons

Wise and funny, touching and true, What Were Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up. Were teaching our sons about money; about heartbreak, and mountains, and philosophy. Were teaching them about the big bang and the abominable snowman and what happens when you get struck by lightning. Were teaching them about the toughness of single mothers, and the importance of having friends whove known you longer than youve known yourself, and the difference between zombies and vampires. Were teaching them about sex, although everyone would be a lot happier if the subject had never come up Meet the married Dads, the divorced Dads, the widowed Dads and the gay Dads; the gamblers, the firemen, the bankers, the nurses, the soldiers and the milkmen. Theyre trying to guide their sons through the foothills of childhood into the bewildering uplands of adulthood. But its hard to know if theyre doing it right. Or what their sons mothers think Wise and funny, touching and true, What Were Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up.