What can adults do to nurture emotional well-being in boys and young men?
Ethan Keller, in response to The Sound of Boys Breaking by Allan Ishac:
This resonated with me…
Emotional maturity is one of the best “people skills” anyone can develop — and there’s such a desire for men to express it more, but so often there’s a stigma of ‘weakness’ so often relayed to induce fear of being vulnerable. But it is precisely the courage to be vulnerable that needs to be taught. The guile to be willing to go out on an emotional limb and be wounded builds 1000 times more character than the machismo that is bought & sold & embedded into cultures all over the world.
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