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May 2016

May 20, 2016

Boys and Girls Learn Differently–A Podcast with Dr. Michael Gurian

Dr. Michael Gurian is the New York Times Best-Selling Author behind books like The Wonder of...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

Why Don’t Boys Make the List of Presidential Campaign Issues?

Immigration…equal pay for equal work…gun control…Wall Street…taxes…the Military…gender equality…terrorism…the national debt…the Middle Class…the top 1...

June 2015

June 05, 2015

Boys and Girls Emote Differently–Can’t We Be OK With That?

Man-up! Take it like a man! Shake it off! Most boys hear those words and...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

The New Gender Gap?

The headline for the March, 16, 2015 edition of the Arizona Republic trumpeted these words: Closing...

October 2014

October 15, 2014

The New Utopia: A Genderless Society?

The Lincoln Public School system recently trained its teachers to create a gender-neutral, or gender-inclusive,...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

The Myth of Male Privilege?

A friend sent me a link to a blog post, written by a mom about...

May 2014

May 24, 2014

Boy is Beautiful (Guest Post by Mark Sherman)

For the last several months a group of writers has been focusing on the issues...

May 08, 2014

Hugs and Slugs–If Boys Could Speak (Guest Post by Janet Allison)

For the next several months a group of writers focused on the issues of boys...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Tommy Heads to Preschool–And Why That May Not Be a Good Thing!

Excerpted from my book, Searching for Tom Sawyer: How Parents and Congregations Can Stop the...

April 01, 2014

The 6 Secrets to Your Son’s Success in School (Guest Post by Dr. Ed Dixon)

For the next several months a group of writers focused on the issues of boys...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Putting the “Boy” Back Into Boyhood

When I was a boy back in the 1960’s, the girl next door “had” to...

January 2014

January 04, 2014

If I Were a Parent of a Boy…(Guest Post by Michael Gurian)

For the next several months a group of writers focused on the issues of boys...

October 2013

October 03, 2013

“Re-Stereotyping” Boys–Part 1: Boy Biology

Faster than a speeding bullet… More powerful than a turbo jet engine… Able to leap...

October 01, 2013

The Troubling “De-Stereotyping” of Boys

Prince Jake was kind and caring. Princess Rose was brave and strong. --from A Fairy...

September 2013

September 12, 2013

The Tyranny of Sameness–Robbing Boys of their Boy-ness

For all of the great advances women, in particular, have experienced thanks to the Women’s...

September 10, 2013

Protecting the Self-Esteem of Boys

This is a post written by my two good friends, Michael Gurian and Gregg Jantz,...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

The High Cost of Bored Boys

The central problem of every society is to define appropriate roles for its men. --Anthropologist...

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