Can a six-year-old sexually harass another child? This week, a 6-year-old Colorado boy was suspended for sexually harassing a female classmate. His crime? Kissing the girl on the hand, after previously kissing her on the cheek. The Internet erupted in outrage after those details and
I owe Carrie Underwood an apology. Like 18.5 million other viewers, I sat down to watch The Sound of Music Live last night. And like many of them, I almost immediately took to Facebook and Twitter to trash the show: Jennifer L. W. Fink 13
A lot of boys don’t like school. And a lot of boys don’t do well in school. Yet virtually every single boy who’s flunking out of school, not doing his homework, just getting by or wailing “I hate school!” was once a curious little toddler.
How did you celebrate Thanksgiving? If you’re like most people, you spent the day with family and/or friends, ate some turkey and, perhaps, watched some football. You probably also spent a few minutes reflecting on your blessings and giving thanks for the many wonderful things
Happy International Men’s Day! This year, on this day set aside to discuss both the challenges and contributions faced by men and boys, I ask to think seriously about how you can help today’s boys — tomorrow’s men. Need some ideas? I’ve got 5 of
Attention, parents of boys who are learning how to pee standing up: Look out for falling toilet seats! –“Potty Training Pitfalls” in the Dec. 2013 edition of Parents magazine. Apparently, “hundreds of little guys” end up in the ER each year with genital abrasions caused
Meagan Francis of The Happiest Home is a good mom. Scratch that — she’s a great mom! Watch this: Did you see that? Better yet — did you hear that? Did you hear Meagan laughing as her 16-year-old son flung himself into the snow? Raising
Shame is at the heart of the issue. As men, we create so much misery and oppression because we fail to deal with our own grief, anger, and confusion. In a culture where fatherlessness is rampant, I meet so many adolescent males who are constantly
What do you think of Raising Boys by Design so far? I plowed through Chapters 7, 8 & 9 – and promptly forgot to write about them last week. Ever have a week that just seemed to get away from you? Yeah, I had a
It used to drive me crazy to see a group of boys clustered around a screen. Before my boys got iPods (used, and purchased with their own money), I used to judge the boys who clustered in corners and played video games on their screens
About a week and a half ago, I wrote this: Are we, the adults, perhaps unintentionally contributing to school shootings by restricting all forms of physical fighting? Would letting kids solve problems physically, at times, keep things from simmering to the extent that they explode
My heart hurts. I haven’t even finished processing the fact that a 12-year-old boy in Nevada shot two other boys and killed a teacher at school earlier this week. So many thoughts weigh heavily on my mind– another school shooting; boys, again, at the center
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