By BBC, 03/14/25 “…His experience is echoed in a new report, which says young men who lack a positive male role model are in crisis. Fatherlessness has a significant impact on boys’ mental health, education and future prospects, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) report found. Read the entire article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd3jlee33yo
Category: Parenting Boys
‘Grandpas’ got together to help kids. Scientists say it boosts the elders’ health, too
By NPR, 03/26/2025 “Skills that can help younger people, especially boys and young men. Williams realized that by sharing their skills and experience, the volunteers wouldn’t just help the kids, they would help themselves, he says, by maintaining their dignity and self-worth…” Read the entire article: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/26/g-s1-55822/volunteer-retirement-health-benefits-grandpas-united
Boys Don’t Love to Read. Could This Former Teacher Be on to Something?
By Education Week, 11/14,2024 “…It was my wife! She noticed that our 3rd grade son hated to read yet would listen to any military-history documentary for hours. Knowing my passion for military history, she asked me to start writing about significant battles just for him. Those homegrown chapters sparked a fire. …” Read the entire READ MORE
Milwaukee school didn’t know boy left building, mother says
By Fox 6 Milwaukee, 10/03/24 “…Three hours after Tyree’s dad dropped him off at Metcalfe School near 34th and North, a woman found the 6-year-old outside and brought him home. He lives about a mile from the school. “He felt like he was being bullied, he didn’t have any friends, so he said he just READ MORE
Subtle symptom on boy’s face revealed he was suffering from silent health emergency
By Daily Mail, 08/26/24 “…A Texas mother is urging parents to look out for a common breathing habit that could have life-long consequences for their children.Soshanna Deyette, from Austin, went through years of misdiagnoses by doctors who struggled to work out what was behind her son’s seemingly unrelated symptoms. …” Read the entire article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13761783/symptom-boys-face-health-emergency-autism.html
The Precarious Online Lives of Young Men
By Time, 08/14/2024 “…We recently shared these statistics with a group of high school boys of various ethnicities and income groups from the Washington, DC area. In response, the boys shared fears, doubts, frustrations about adults who judge and don’t understand, confusion about what it is to be a man, and concerns for despondent peers…” READ MORE
Why “Boy” Culture Is Hurting Boys and Everyone Else
By Greater Good Magazine, July 8, 2024 “…We just assume the “boy” culture notion of boys is true, and we have all sorts of books that say it’s biological. I want to say to people saying gender differences are biological, “Have you ever listened to kids? Because if you ever listened to kids, you would READ MORE
Study shows why boys need positive, diverse role models
By The Educator, 06/26/2024 “…A growing body of research shows that young men are finding it increasingly tough to find their place in the world and build confidence to navigate the pressures and expectations of modern society…” Read the entire article: https://www.theeducatoronline.com/k12/news/study-shows-why-boys-need-positive-diverse-role-models/285005
Boys need the HPV cancer vaccine as much as girls
By Las Vegas Sun, 06/17/2024 “…And while overall cancer deaths in the U.S. have been on a steady decline, the mortality rate for HPV-associated oral cancers has continued to rise by 2% per year. That’s a sobering message for parents of boys. In 2022, just 35% of boys between the ages of 9 and 17 READ MORE
Mental health experts fear depression in boys going untreated, undetected
By NBCDFW, 06/27/2024 “…A study shows “boys are disappearing” from mental health care. Experts explain that boys aren’t always as expressive with their struggles. They say it is not a stereotype, but part of the way many boys and young men process things like anxiety, grief and loneliness…” Read the entire article: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/mental-health-experts-fear-depression-in-boys-going-untreated-undetected/3578059/