Sheldon Smith’s dad wasn’t there for him. His grandfather wasn’t there for his dad. Sheldon was determined to stop the cycle. At the age of 19, on the verge of becoming a father himself, he founded The Dovetail Project, an initiative designed to teach young
I can’t believe it took me the better part of a week to sit down and watch this incredibly inspiring and moving video! If you haven’t yet seen the footage of these two boys performing on Britain’s Got Talent, sit down now and watch it.
We don’t like it when boys do this so they do this This makes us nervous So they do this We tell boys, Be Careful! and Get Down! So they do this We say No More! and Too Dangerous! So they do this We wring
Do our boys only matter when dollars (or lack of dollars) can be tied to their achievements (or lack of achievements)? In this country, the answer seems to be yes. The New York Times made a bit of a splash this week with the article
Do you live or work with teen boys? Sit them down and watch this video with them. Jeremy Loveday’s spoken word poem clearly explains what rape culture is — and what boys and young men can do to decrease violence in our culture.
I think I pressured a boy into having sex with me. I was 16 at the time. So was he. It was our first date — and my first date, ever — after weeks and months of talking in study hall and passing notes. We
We have a problem. A continuing, lingering, painful problem. Black moms and dads and grandparents throughout this country are looking at the sweet faces of their black boys with fear in their hearts. Today, black moms and dads and grandparents are looking at the black
For the next several months a group of writers focused on the issues of boys and men are collaborating through the writing and sharing of blog posts in order to bring greater awareness to the unique challenges boys and men face in the 21st Century.
Rule #1 of raising healthy, emotionally well-adjusted kids: Keep the kids out of the parent crap. That rule is probably stated much more eloquently somewhere else. (In fact, I’m sure it is!) But whether I remember the exact wording or not, that’s the takeaway I
No one has ever asked me what it means to be a woman. I realized this recently, after two of my brothers began debating what it means to be a man. One of my brothers wrote out his thoughts after seeing the trailer for The
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