• Madhumitha K
• Dr. M. John Suganya

Dan Kindlon, one of the country’s leading psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of experience working with boys and their families, in the book, Raising Cain. From his work with the boys in schools, he knew that too many boys fall into trap of embracing the image of stoic masculinity they see in mainstream media – a template that has been adopted as the inflexible code of the peer group. The present article is a brief study of boys systematically steered away from their emotional lives by adults and the peer “culture of cruelty”- boys who receive little encouragement to develop qualities such as compassion, sensitivity, and warmth. The prominent view of the article is to make a compelling case that emotional literacy is the most valuable gift we can offer our sons, urging parents to recognize the price boys pay when we hold them to an impossible standard of manhood.

Emotional Miseducation, Psychology, Literacy of Boys

"A study of Emotional Miseducation of boys in the Raising Cain by Dan Kindlon", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.96-99, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFG06020.pdf

"A study of Emotional Miseducation of boys in the Raising Cain by Dan Kindlon", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. pp96-99, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFG06020.pdf