By The Guardian on 06/27/2018 “… Men’s Health magazine has transformed many men – and its own fortunes – by featuring extreme muscle makeovers. But does changing shape fast have a dark side? …” Read the entire article: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/27/get-shredded-in-six-weeks-the-problem-with-extreme-male-body-transformations The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Category: Parenting Boys
You Don’t Hit Girls
By Psychology Today on 06/21/2018 “… One of the clearest messages I heard from my father when I was a boy was this: You don’t hit girls. I wasn’t supposed to start fights with boys either, but if one of them were to hit me, my dad made it clear that I could, and, in fact, READ MORE
Solving the Pronoun Problem
By Psychology Today on 06/06/2018 “… In his recent post, Cody Kommers suggests that in order to correct the hundreds of years that our language used the generic masculine, a better approach than struggling with “he or she” or “s/he,” or going back and forth between the generic masculine and generic feminine, is that we simply switch to READ MORE
Exclusive: Craig Morgan Admits Son Jerry’s Death is the ‘First Thing I Think About When I Wake Up’
By Pop Culture on 02/28/2018 “… Craig Morgan and his wife, Karen, experienced every parent’s worst nightmare in 2016, when their 19-year-old son, Jerry, drowned while tubing on a lake with his friends. …” Read the entire article: http://popculture.com/country-music/2018/02/28/craig-morgan-jerry-greer-son-died-exclusive/ The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Why primary school boys are needing mental health intervention
By Riot Act on 01/24/2018 “… It was a cry for help from a parent that made Menslink realise that a growing number of primary school boys were in need of mental health support. Now 10 to 12-year-old boys make up 12 per cent of the male support group’s client case, which CEO Martin Fisk said was not READ MORE
Teen pregnancies decline
By News Press Now on 01/29/2018 “… The YWCA also offers a program for teen parents called Healthy Teen Parents/Health Babies. McChristy thinks sex education is a big part of the declining rate of teen pregnancies. “I have not seen anyone who has gone through those programs (Choices and Decisions) in my program, the Healthy Teen/Healthy READ MORE
SOIREE Education Is The Only Way To Tackle The Horrors Of Child Abuse
By Blogs on 01/03/2018 “… Almost two years later things haven’t changed much. We are there again and so is our silence. Once again we have failed our children. Recently, the Norwegian Embassy contacted FIA through a letter and informed them about a man named Amin who indulged in child pornography in Sargodha. He lured the READ MORE
Request for Abstracts for Presentations: Annual Summit Fatherhood and Health and Wellness of Boys and Men
By Men’s Health Network “… This year marks the fourth year of the Summit. The NHSA represents the 100 plus Healthy Start programs across the country with a goal of reducing the disparity in infant mortality. Although our Healthy Start programs are over 26 years old, many of them realized in the early years that a READ MORE
A Father’s Impact on Teen Boys
By Livestrong.com on 01/28/2015 “…The unfavorably increasing number of children living without fathers can be associated to different factors such as fathers walking away due to financial struggles and increased number of teenage mothers. However, being a good father means being a provider, nurturer and friend to your children. …” Read the entire article: http://www.livestrong.com/article/1005752-fathers-impact-teen-boys/ The READ MORE
The Importance of a Father in a Teenage Boy’s Life After Divorce
By Our Everyday Life “… According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the American divorce rate has been decreasing over the past decade. However, there are still millions of children living in divorced homes. Divorce can be especially hard on teenage boys who need a father’s influence in order to develop socially and psychologically. …” Read the READ MORE