Someone once told me that the closer a little boy is to his mum, the more severe the separation will be when he becomes a teenager. Another experienced mum told me, don’t worry, they do disappear into their bedrooms and grunt at you for a few years, but they do come back. Maggie Dent is a font of this kind of ‘mum’ wisdom, and backs it up in this book with the science of teenage boy development and the voices of boys and men (over […]