The Book
The Boys' Guide to Growth Mindset
by Oluwatosin Akindele, LCSW
The Boys' Guide to Growth Mindset is an interactive book that helps boys embrace challenges with courage and curiosity. In these pages, you'll learn to turn setbacks into opportunities and celebrate each step of your learning journey.
Who It's For
Boys navigating identity, confidence, and emotional growth and the parents, educators, and mentors walking alongside them. Written for young readers, but built on the real tools used in school counseling rooms with real boys working through real challenges.
Why It Was Written
Years of sitting with boys in school hallways and counseling offices taught me something simple: boys are rarely given the language for what they're feeling, or the belief that growth is something they're capable of. The Boys' Guide to Growth Mindset puts that language and that belief directly into their hands.
What's Inside
Practical, age-appropriate tools for building self-awareness, resilience, and confidence, the same goal-tracking, reflection, and skill-based approaches used in Oluwatosin’s school-based counseling work, translated into a guide boys can hold onto themselves.
Bulk Orders & Schools
Bring it to your students.
Interested in ordering copies for a classroom, school, or youth program? TherapyForUsByUs offers bulk pricing for schools and organizations looking to bring this resource to the boys they serve.
Book + Speaking Package
Pair a visit with the book.
Pair a classroom or assembly visit with copies of The Boys' Guide to Growth Mindset for an integrated experience Oluwatosin speaks directly to the book's themes of growth mindset, identity, and resilience, then leaves students with a tool they can keep using.