Journalist Helen Coffey deploys both the 2023 Equimundo study and a brief interview with Dr. Reichert as she concludes that the “best way to help women, then, may be to finally start helping boys – by scrapping outdated and damaging notions of what it is to be a man and encouraging them to be emotionally open and foster deeper relationships.” Read the whole article at The Independent!
SELF: Here’s What I’ve Learned About Boys In My 30 Years As A Child Psychologist
The Penn Gazette: Toward a New Boyhood
“What a growing number of them have discovered, he contends—and what he hopes his book will illuminate for more—is a perverse irony at the heart of American masculinity. As an ethos, it reveres self-possession, competency, fortitude, and resilience. But as a behavioral code, it demands submission—quiet acquiescence to a narrow set of stereotypes that fence off whole realms of human experience.” Read more!
Fatherly: A Letter to my Grandson
“As you get older, people will tell you that character is innate and fixed, that some have it and others don’t. Ignore these people. They haven’t seen what I’ve seen and they haven’t heard what I’ve heard. It’s my job to watch boys grow up and let me tell you this: You can change yourself into the person you want to be. You have the chance to do that every day.” Read more!
The Wall Street Journal: The New Strategies for Raising a Boy
Time Magazine: It Doesn’t Take a Man to Raise a Boy
“The peer pressures of boyhood are so powerful, a strong sense of self is necessary if a boy is to avoid unhealthy identities. All parents need to remember that our connection with our sons is their primary fortification.” Read more!
Brightly: 5 Tips for Getting Your Son to Open Up to You
“It’s hard for parents — or for anyone reaching for a boy, such as teachers or coaches — not to feel like a failure when their sons reject their generous, thoughtful invitations to connect. It feels like a comment on our job performance. For parents whose stress is already high or who are already struggling with self-esteem, anger and hurt are natural reactions. The boy becomes the problem — an attitude that boys quickly pick up on and attempt to shield themselves from.” Read more!
New York Times: It's Dangerous to Be a Boy
“They smoke more, fight more and are far more likely to die young than girls. But their tendency to violence isn’t innate.” Read more!
Fatherly: The Seduction of Football and How It's Destroying Today's Boys
"What Jason’s parents felt, even if they didn’t see it clearly, was that their son drank the cultural brew and had become intoxicated. He was all too willing to sacrifice himself for the higher purpose offered by historic masculine values ⏤ even though routine casualties have always been an inconvenient truth about boyhood." Read more!
YahooNews: Will #MeToo dating rules bring on an 'end of men'?
"Modern sexual mores ask a lot of millennial and Gen Z men, who are being whipsawed between two unyielding cultural forces. While the movement for gender equality offers everyone, including men, a better deal overall — and has the advantage of being fair — traditional masculinity continues to teach boys lessons in dominance, exploitation, shame, and loss. From this clash, some fear an 'end of men' — or at least an end to the historic masculinity most males take to heart." Read more!