Julie M. Hollis
Cover of Raise Street-Smart Boys Ages 9–12: While the Window’s Still Open, by Julie M. Hollis For readers of the book

Thank you for buying Street-Smart Boys. You chose to spend some of these years practicing with your son, and that matters. I hope the lessons give him real words to use, and give you a few good talks along the way.

More to go with Street‑Smart Boys

A few extra resources to help you get more out of the book, wherever you are in it.

Is your son already starting to pause, read the room, and make his own call?

You don’t need to finish it to leave an honest review: a few lessons are plenty.

If the book is helping, would you leave a short, honest review on Amazon? Your words help the next parent decide if it’s right for their son.

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It takes about a minute.

Optional: a photo helps other readers

  • The book open on the kitchen table during a Try It session
  • A Practice Week Page from the book, filled in after a week
  • Your son’s hands holding the book (no need to show his face)

About Street-Smart Boys

Street-Smart Boys is a practice book you and your son work through together, while he still listens to you. Whether he holds back or acts first, he learns one move: pause, read, respond. Across 152 short lessons, he says real lines out loud, practices them with you in two-minute Try It sessions, then uses them once for real.

The goal is a boy who notices when something feels off, makes his own call, and tells you about it at dinner.

Continue the practice

These bonuses don’t repeat the book. They take the practice into the car, onto the fridge, and into his own hands.

Cover of the free bonus The “What If?” Car-Ride Deck
What If? Car-Ride Deck
Cover of the free bonus Practice Week Pages
Practice Week Pages
Cover of the free bonus Keep It Close
Keep It Close
Cover of the free bonus My Next Steps
My Next Steps

Four free resources are waiting for you: 32 car-ride question cards, printable practice pages for every chapter, a quick-grab kit for you, and five worksheets he fills in himself.

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