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How Not To Be a Boy

2017 | Biography

RULES FOR BEING A MAN Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone? Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) to discovering the power of making people laugh (in the Cambridge Footlights with David Mitchell), and from losing his beloved mother to becoming a husband and father, Robert Webb considers the absurd expectations boys and men have thrust upon them at every stage of life. Hilarious and heartbreaking, How Not To Be a Boy explores the relationships that made Robert who he is as a man, the lessons we learn as sons and daughters, and the understanding that sometimes you aren't the Luke Skywalker of your life - you're actually Darth Vader.



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Funny and poignant.
Robert Webb tells us about how his life from beginning to current day, illustrates how not to be a boy. Basically, men are not brought up (largely speaking) equipped with the emotional know-how like women are. Emotions are seen as 'unmanly'. I hope times are changing. I've made an effort in my home to equip my sons with the vocabulary and ability to name their emotions and own them. Times are (hopefully) changing!