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The Dangerous Book for Boys

I heard a wonderful book review yesterday on NPR about a book that helps remind us why we need to turn off our electronic gadgets and just get outside with our kids again.

It’s called The Dangerous Book for Boys, and it’s chock full of adventurous projects for you and your son.  When I was growing up, most of these things just came to Ed and I naturally, but now-a-days, I think parents might have forgotten some of them.

Thank goodness for Cub / Boy scouts, where boys are still encouraged to actually get outside and be boys.  It really scares me to think that some kids never go camping these days.

Main book website:
http://www.dangerousbookforboys.com/

YouTube trailer for the book:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5PSdBWvx8s

NPR interview with Scott Simon and the book’s authors, Hal and Conn Iggulden (brothers in crime):
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10559158

And Asha at Parent Hacks calls the book “a boy’s field manual to a summer (or a lifetime) of adventure and curiosity.”

From 13-year-old Simon: “The Dangerous Book … encompasses all of the things that kids don’t think about much these days, like semaphore flags, building a go-cart, famous battles, and things like that. It’s full of experiments, projects, and random facts. If you open it up to any page, you’ll probably have learned something when you close it.” And 11-year-old Jonah says the book “has all the things that an energetic boy would want. it shows all kinds of things like how to make a tree house, the rules of soccer, and how to make a bow and arrow [see what I mean?].”

Only $15 over at Amazon.

P.S. Don’t forget to print up the necessary “merit” badges as well!