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  • Published: 15 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9780804140508
  • Imprint: Harmony/Rodale
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99

Love That Boy

What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, And My Son Taught Me About A Parent's Expectations



Editor of National Journal, and former head of the Associated Press's Washington Bureau, Ron Fournier movingly explores the outsize and crushing expectations that parents have for their kids through the lens of his relationship with his son, Tyler, who has mild Asperger's, in this New York Times bestselling memoir, now in paperback.

"[A]n eloquent, brave, big-hearted book…about the timeless anxieties and emotions of parenthood, and the modern twists thereon.”
—James Fallows, The Atlantic

Love That Boy is a uniquely personal story about the causes and costs of outsized parental expectations. What we want for our children—popularity, normalcy, achievement, genius—and what they truly need—grit, empathy, character—are explored by National Journal’s Ron Fournier, who weaves his extraordinary journey to acceptance around the latest research on childhood development and stories of other loving-but-struggling parents.

  • Published: 15 April 2017
  • ISBN: 9780804140508
  • Imprint: Harmony/Rodale
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $29.99

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