Boyhood In Peril – The Battle To Raise Healthy, Thriving Boys Into Men in A Chaotic World Much has been written in the past decade about the troubled inner and outer lives of boys. The positions the ‘experts’ take vary between disturbing books on their damaged and wounded inner and emotional lives written by psychologists…
Being a teenager is enough to make you puke The following is a true story, with name changes to protect the guilty, and a few expletives toned down from R to PG 13, sort of. Jeremy is a 17 year old high school senior. He is, in many ways, typical of the kids I mentor.…
Dear Facebook Friend: Now that we are officially linked on Facebook, let me tell you my policy regarding what this means and what it does not. Before I begin, let me encourage you to not take anything I am about to say personally. It is not a comment about you. It is information about me.…
I stopped by Babies’R Us last night to pick up a few items for my daughter. While checking out the Assistant Manager named Darrin asks me if I want to join their Frequent Buyers Club and qualify for discounts. As there was no cost to join and it only took a minute, I said yes.…
The other day one of clients who is a senior in high school, looked me dead in the eye and said, “Hey, Risk equals Reward!” It stopped me dead in my tracks. Me: “Where did you come up with that one?” Him: “My economics teacher.” Me: “Well your economics teacher is a Stupid F#CK” !…
Jake’s tears welled up in his eyes about 11:30pm last night. He was a fifteen year old boy at a camp in Pennsylvania who took me up on the offer to continue the discussion started earlier that day in a Boys To Mensch program I had run with the entire group that afternoon. Of the…
There is an unspoken agreement in our home that I do the dishes. It works out this way about 90% of the time. It isn’t because we have some liberated, modern family where gender roles are rebelled against and we have some intention to model some different way of life for our daughter. In fact,…