10 Things I Wish I’d Known About Raising a Boy
10 Things I Wish I’d Known About Raising a Boy
When you have a girl, you know that you can always fall back on your own childhood memories to guide you as a parent. But unless you grew up with a brother, there’s a good chance that parts of raising a boy can take you by surprise. From the sports obsession to the penis comparisons, here are 10 things Holly Pevzner says she wishes she’d known about bringing up boys.
Here’s a sneak peek at #2:
2. Boys don’t stop moving
From the moment they come bouncing into your bed at 5:30 in the morning until they pass out at bedtime, boys go. Sometimes it seems like they have only two speeds — fast and faster. This means that your toddler could be sitting on the floor shaking a rattle one minute and when you turn your head, he will have summitted the dining room table. He may not ever slow down, but you’ll learn to pick up the pace. “Give them goals,” said dad of three Randolph RoVino. “Give them the tools. Give them encouragement to use the energy that they have. And have your sneakers on!”
Why Boys Are Struggling & What We Can Do To Help Them
Today’s Listen, from TheArtofManliness.com is an interview with Michael Gurian. He concrete things parents and schools can do to cater to these differences in boys to help them thrive and become resilient men.
If you’re the parent of boy or if you teach or mentor young boys, you don’t want to miss this episode.
Show Highlights
- Why do boys need saving?
- The ways in which boys are falling behind girls in academics, health, and more
- Why the unique problems of boys are often ignored
- What is the dominant gender paradigm (DGP)?
- The nature based theory of gender, and how sex and gender are different things
- The differences between the male and female brain
- Why girls and boys require different strategies in parenting
- How do males nurture differently than women?
- What is male anhedonia?
- How neurotoxins affect boys, and how they’re brought about
- How schools are failing boys, and how to know if a school is boy-friendly
- How to constructively help schools and teachers be more boy-friendly
- The benefits of competition for boys
- How college campuses have become unfriendly for males
- How screen time and video games are especially dangerous for young boys
- The ways you can turn video games into assets
10 Things You Only Get if You’re the Mother of Boys
