Growing Up Angry No More: Raising Emotionally Intelligent Boys

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Boys don’t just “mellow out,” they learn to repress anger and fear. How to give your sons the freedom to feel and express the full range of emotions.

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The Sex Lives of New Dads

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Jayson Gaddis’s life changed big time after having one kid, then two.

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A Modern Day Hero’s Journey Is What Today’s Boy Needs to Become a Man

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The entire reason we have such a thing as a quarter life crisis, and later a mid-life crisis, is because boys and young men lack meaningful rite-of-passage experiences.

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Why Time Outs Don’t Work

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Jayson Gaddis believes that time outs don’t work for parents who are unwilling to put themselves in an adult time out — which is what’s really needed.

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The Single Biggest Obstacle Facing Boys and Men Today

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When men let someone else define manhood for them, instead of using their own intelligence and being the true author of their own life, they end up buying the culture’s narrow version of masculinity without question.

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Raising a Boy Using Shame

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“Shame on you.” It’s how we were parented, but it’s not how we should be parenting.

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What Happens When We Don’t Teach Our Boys About Sex

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Exploring the mess we are in around male sexuality. How did we get here and what on earth do we do?

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