Great Beginnings

From: Cracking the Boy Code

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• Getting off to a good start “sets the table” for a constructive conversation. The approach you use should be guided by the situation at hand.

• Respect always promotes trust and greater openness. Your honesty and humility are primary ways of modeling respect. In this way, conversations are a teaching opportunity.

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Adam Cox

Adam J. Cox Ph.D, is a clinical psychologist whose work includes thousands of hours interviewing children. His research includes a multi-year global research project, Locating Significance in the Lives of Boys, for the International Boys' Schools Coalition, during which he interviewed students and teachers in the US, UK, Canada, Singapore, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia, from a wide variety of social and educational backgrounds. A sought-after therapist and frequent speaker on the psychology of boys, he is author of the acclaimed books On Purpose Before Twenty, Boys of Few Words and No Mind Left Behind. Cox lives in Rhode Island and shares his wisdom in his newsletter Family Matters at DrAdamCox.com.