Photo by espensorvik via Flickr Here it is! The Best of the Blogs for the week of June 4-8, 2012: Why Society is Failing Young Boys. Boys/young men aren’t doing so well in society. Girls are graduating college are far greater rates than boys are,
It’s the first day of summer vacation here. Boy #1-3, plus a friend, are currently picking stones for a local farmer. (Don’t know what I mean by “picking stones?” Check out this 2009 blog post.) Boy #4 is a busy as busy can be. So
Maybe I’m just hyper-sensitive to language. Or maybe I just strongly believe that little boys should have the freedom to be little boys, without hearing verbal messages that imply they’re somehow not manly enough. Last night, I attended my 6-yr-old son’s first baseball game of
Actor Jason Alexander, formerly of Seinfeld, took some heat in 2012 when he called the sport of cricket “a bit gay.” Hi comments ignited a controversy on Twitter, with some of his followers saying that they found his humor offensive. Alexander didn’t get it. At
I was attempting to hurry my 6-yr-old through his bedtime routine when he started scrawling something on the steamy bathroom mirror. “Stop th–,” I said, my voice trailing off as I suddenly realized what he might be writing. His finger continued through the condensation, then
Poet Guante, with a powerful piece that touches on the hidden (and hurtful) messages in the phrase, “man up.”
Normally, Fridays are Best of the Blogs day around here. But today, please allow me a moment to interrupt our regularly scheduled programming… Today is June 1, which means that the Blogathon — the 31-day blogging challenging I undertook during the month of May —
Have you read The Achilles Effect? I have and I’ll say this: I’ll never look at media the same way again. I thought I was already pretty savvy to the subtle influences of media, but after reading the book, I’m even more acutely aware of the
Have you read The Achilles Effect? I have and I’ll say this: I’ll never look at media the same way again. I thought I was already pretty savvy to the subtle influences of media, but after reading the book, I’m even more acutely aware of the
Photo via U.S. National Archives What concerns you the most about parenting boys? Three of my top 3 boy-raising concerns are: 1) Respect. I want my boys to learn to treat men and women, young and old, with respect, and I’d like that respect to
I missed Wordle Day! When I signed on for Blogathon 2012, I was particularly looking forward to one theme day: Wordle Day. I was introduced to the concept of a Wordle about a year ago, at the School of the Arts in Rhinelander. The idea
My boys, thank God, do not fully understand war. To them, war is battles and weapons, strategy and excitement. They do not know the smell of death or sounds of ordinance. They know war from a distance only — on TV and safely tucked in
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