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July 2016

July 14, 2016

The Wonder of Girls: A Podcast with Dr. Michael Gurian

Dr. Michael Gurian has spent the last 30 years of his life writing and speaking about...

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...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Top 10 Reasons Why Dad Matters–According to Science

In my last post I referenced a book by Paul Raeburn entitled: Do Father’s Matter?...

June 26, 2015

Could Dad be the Key to Healing Our Country?

Near the end of his book, Do Fathers Matter? What Science is Telling Us About...

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...

May 2015

May 08, 2015

Why Church Matters to Your Kids—Part 4: Reason #3 is…

If Jesus matters to us, then what matters to Jesus will matter to us. If...

May 01, 2015

Why Church Matters to Your Kids–Part 3: Reason #2 is…

In my first two posts on this issue I have argued that the Church matters…and...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

Why Church Matters to Your Kids–Part 2: Reason #1 is…

As I cited in my first post on this subject, church attendance among Christians has...

April 16, 2015

Why Church Matters to Your Kids, Part 1: Does the Church Matter?

Philip Yancey, in his book, What’s so Amazing About Grace, opens up with a gut-wrenching...

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...

February 2015

February 03, 2015

A Dad’s Playbook for Forging Faith in his Kids–Part 3: Gentlemen–This is Your Brain on Testosterone

(Many great books have been written recently about how to be more intentional in forging...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

A Dad’s Playbook for Forging Faith in His Kids–Part 2: From Outsourcing to Dadsourcing

(Many great books have been written recently about how to be more intentional in forging...

January 20, 2015

A Dad’s Playbook for Forging Faith in his Kids–Part 1

(Many great books have been written recently about how to be more intentional in forging faith in...

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...

August 2014

August 17, 2014

Are Children’s/Youth Ministries the New Leper Colonies?

(Excerpted from: Sunday Schooling Our Kids Out of Church! The True Story of How One...

August 05, 2014

Sunday Schooling Our Kids Out of Church

(Excerpted from Sunday Schooling Our Kids Out of Church: The True Story of How One Congregation...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

The Tyranny of Boy-Blindess: The Fog of Gender Wars

The Fog of War: The unavoidable aspect of war wherein the intelligence gathered is always...

June 19, 2014

The Decade of the Boy (Guest Post by Michael Gurian)

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

May 2014

May 28, 2014

For the Sake of our Children: Redefining the Legacy of Success

I wrote this for the Huffington Post last year at the request of Arianna Huffington...

May 09, 2014

If We Want our Kids to Grow Up…Perhaps We Need to Grow Up!

I was at my granddaughter’s soccer game last week. (She’s going to be 5 this...

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 15, 2014

Is it Time to Finally Say…These are Good Days to be a Girl?

For over a generation we have been fighting for our girls…creating a world where they...

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...

March 07, 2014

Finally: Unmasking the Ultimate Culprit Behind the Boy Crisis

I had a fascinating “discussion” with a Facebook friend a few weeks ago. He has...

January 2014

January 17, 2014

A Grandpa’s Prayer for his Granddaughter

Dear Clover (age 4 ½), From the moment you were born (even before then) I...

December 2013

December 15, 2013

The Emasculation of Boyhood

It’s tough being a boy these days. Just ask 6-year-old Hunter Yelton who was suspended...

November 2013

November 26, 2013

What Does it Profit Parents to Over-Program their Children….and Lose the Souls of the Kids in the Process?

At the end of a seminar I led on boys a man in his 70’s...

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...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

Could the Church be the Best Hope for Our Boys?

These are tough days to be a boy! Boys are falling behind girls in virtually...

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