You can find a copy of Tough Guys Have Feelings Too (affiliate link) from Publishers Group Canada or your local bookstore. This doesn’t make boys less like boys but rather more human. Tough Guys (Have Feelings Too) is a great reminder for parents and children (boys and girls) that humans feel a wide assortment of emotions including sadness, fear, and disappointment. Love encompasses an array of emotions and only something like a robot doesn’t encounter. It all ties back to a son and his dad and the bond they share. These characters and role models of bravery and toughness also deal with the other spectrum of emotion, and that’s fine. Tough Guys shows that even pirates get sad when they can’t find their treasure and astronauts get lonely when away from their family. Tough Guys Have Feelings Too (affiliate link) reminds us all that fear, disappointment and sadness aren’t just emotions reserved for females. I know my son has often been told by adults and even other boys his age that sadness isn’t an emotion boys show, that it’s a sign of weakness, a feminine behaviour. We’re not surprised when girls show fear, sadness, anger, and happiness, but there’s an expectation on boys to tough it out.
In fact everyone has feelings-especially dads who love their children! As parents we are often challenged with looking at things from a child’s perspective, both literally as well as figuratively. Even superheroes and ninjas feel sad sometimes. even daddies have emotions! Did you know wrestlers have feelings? And knights.
Flying Eye Books / Publishers Group CanadaĪ boldly illustrated picture book read-aloud about how everyone gets sad-ninjas, wrestlers, knights, superheroes, everyone.
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