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New Rites of Passage for Young Men

March 3, 2013 By Nick Clements 1 Comment

How to create meaningful rites that young men want to experience.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Mentoring and Volunteering Tagged With: adolescence, Adolescents, aggression, bullying, courage, cultural relativity, discovering your passion, fostering creativity in boys, Google Science Fair, how to change your son's life, indigenous people, interdependence, Kenya, making documentaries, male circumcision, male rites of passage, manhood, masculinity, men's groups, men's movement, mentoring mentors, mentorship, milestones, motivating boys, peer pressure, Samburu, teaching responsibility, technology in education, teenage inventors, teenage rituals, teenagers, value of mistakes, violence, vulnerability

Natural Born Runner

February 18, 2013 By Jeff Swain 2 Comments

Of all the members of his close knit Ukrainian family, Jeff Swain most uncannily resembles his Uncle Albie, who was also a runner.

Filed Under: Man on the Run, The Good Life Tagged With: cancer, death, dissertation defense, expectations, Families, family history, journey's end, long distance running, marathon runners, milestones, Penn State, running, spiritual experience, Ukranian Americans

Reimagining Mentorship

January 19, 2013 By Justin Cascio 4 Comments

The building blocks of society are its adult citizens. What kind of society do we want to build?

Filed Under: Featured Content, Mentoring and Volunteering, The Good Life Tagged With: AA, accepting change, accepting differences, adulthood, alcoholics anonymous, altruism, apprenticeship, childhood development, civilization, cultural change, Culture, curriculum, defining adulthood, defining manhood, diversity, egalitarian relationships, egalitarian society, emotional intelligence, gangs, identity, manhood, masculinity, maturity, mentoring, mentoring boys, mentorship, milestones, mission, Motivation, patience, pedagogy, raising heroes, relationship building, relationship skills, religious rites of passage, Responsibility, rites of initiation, rites of passage, self-discovery, self-worth, service, skills for change, social skills, teaching children, Technology, The Karate Kid, wisdom, work/life balance

The Intact-ivists

December 22, 2012 By Stephen Robert Morse 2 Comments

A diverse group of men who are opposed to circumcision share a common, if unorthodox, mission—to restore their foreskins.

Filed Under: Body Image, Featured Content, Health, Psych, & Addiction, The Good Life Tagged With: aesthetics, American Academy of Pediatrics, ancient Greece, anti-circ, anti-circumcision, Barefoot Intactivist, body image, Burning Man, circumcision, circumcision debate, cultural practices, devices, Egyptians, foreskin, foreskin restoration, foreskin restoring equipment, genital mutilation, glans, history of circumcision, hiv transmission, Howard Stern, intactivists, Jewish men's bodies, jews, Joel Stein, kynodesme, male circumcision, Men's Health, men's support groups, milestones, muslims, National Organization of Restoring Men, new york city, religious practices, religious rites, rites of passage, STD transmission, The Good Life, uncut men

A Curriculum of Male Mentorship: 1/5

December 20, 2012 By The Good Life @ GMP 11 Comments

If you were writing the lesson plans for an introduction to manhood, what would you include?

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: Call for submissions, education, lesson plans, man building, man making blog, masculinity, mentoring boys, mentorship, milestones, The Good Life

Opposites Attract, to a Point

December 15, 2012 By Jerry Brennan 2 Comments

A longtime bachelor finds love and marriage don’t always arrive as planned.

Filed Under: Sex & Relationships, The Good Life, Weddings Tagged With: being challenged, common interests, communication skills, dating, demonstrating love, engagement, Faith, fatherhood, gandhi, honeymoon, House of Blues, kindness, living together, Lollapalooza, marriage, milestones, morning sickness, opposites attract, pregnancy, relationships, romance, Sex and Relationships, successful relationships, Valentine's Day

Grandfatherhood: 12/27

December 13, 2012 By The Good Life @ GMP 1 Comment

Are you a grampa? A granddad? A “Pop-pop”?

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, Grandfatherhood, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: calls for submissions, children, Families, grandchildren, grandfathers, Grandparents, Men over 50, milestones, relationships, The Good Life, traditions

Navigating Male Midlife

December 12, 2012 By Lisa Friedman Bloch and Kathy Kirtland Silverman 5 Comments

Recognize the signs of male menopause and understand the reasons behind the changes.

Filed Under: Health, Psych, & Addiction, Men Over 50, The Good Life Tagged With: change of life, competition, control, empty nest syndrome, fear of aging, fear of death, generation gap, male menopause, manhood, manopause, masculinity, men at midlife, Men over 50, Men's Health, mental health, midlife, midlife crisis, milestones, relationships, Senior Men, stoicism, strength, testosterone, traditional male, vulnerability, work/life balance

On Turning 40

December 7, 2012 By Professor Pinch 4 Comments

Have the Baby Boomers ruined aging for the rest of us?

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Lifestyle, The Good Life Tagged With: 1980s, 1990s, aging, Baby Boomers, birthdays, brat pack, Carl Wilson, Ed Sullivan, fatherhood, Gen X, Happy Days, internet, jfk, lifestyle, Lord Voldemort, Meaning of Life, melancholy, men at 40, milestones, Nostalgia, popular culture, progress, relevance, soldiers, staind, Stone Temple Pilots, Technology, The Good Life, The New York Times, Thomas Wolfe, turning 40, vanity, Vietnam, War, Watergate, youth

This Is Wonderful News … Right?

November 23, 2012 By JD Roberto 1 Comment

This isn’t about how we feel down the road. This is about that first split second when we realize that everything we know is about to change for good.

Filed Under: Featured Content, The Good Life, Whether to Father Tagged With: ambivalence, blessings, contraception, EPT, Families, fatherhood, gratitude, grief, having children, joy, life altering events, milestones, Parenthood, pregnancy, pregnancy test, real life vs commercials, The Good Life, unplanned pregnancy, whether to father

The Childfree Life

November 19, 2012 By Anonymous 14 Comments

I could have been a decent, if reluctant, father, just like my own father was. I’ve made a different choice.

Filed Under: The Good Life, Whether to Father Tagged With: child-free, childfree, childfree men, childhood, considering fatherhood, dysfunctional families, Families, fatherhood, fertility, having children, Introversion, life decisions, major decisions, milestones, Parenthood, personal boundaries, selfishness, The Good Life, whether to father

Advice to the Young on Their Wedding Day

November 15, 2012 By Patrick Caneday 12 Comments

A “short” speech on marriage is an impossible task; like a “quick” hike up Mt. Everest. But when your brother asks, tell him what you know.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Featured Content, The Good Life, Weddings Tagged With: best wedding speeches, brothers, friendship, happy marriage, honesty, joy, marriage advice, marriage wisdom, Married life, marry your best friend, men love marriage, men's favorite wedding moments, milestones, Sex and Relationships, tips for happy marriage, wedding reception, wedding toasts, Weddings

10 Things Being a Waiter Taught Me about Being a Better Man

November 12, 2012 By Mark Radcliffe 8 Comments

Waiting tables can be an opportunity to develop skills from humility to leadership.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Featured Content Tagged With: being a waiter, being helpful, Blame, career, Chaos, confidence, Diplomacy, Dirty Jobs, ego, famous waiters, happiness, injustice, Jobs, karma, leadership, manhood, maturity, milestones, patience, service, social skills, stamina, success, waiter, waiting tables, Work

Can You Afford to Let Your Family Pay for Your Wedding?

November 12, 2012 By Albert Okagbue 22 Comments

Can you afford not to?

Filed Under: Featured Content, The Good Life, Weddings Tagged With: afford to marry, asking for help, borrowing money, building relationships, cost of wedding, decisions, family, family bonds, family values, finances, independence, interdependence, loans, major life events, manhood, marriage, masculinity, milestones, money, paying for wedding, resources, retirement, self-sufficiency, soliciting donations, values, Weddings

The Meaning of Life

November 11, 2012 By Jeff Swain 14 Comments

Jeff Swain’s new column on The Good Life explores the myths that tell the story of what it is to be a human being.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Man on the Run, The Good Life Tagged With: Alberto Manguel, art, Bulfinch's Mythology, collective unconscious, consciousness, identity, interpreting myths, Joseph Campbell, Jung, life, Meaning of Life, milestones, mortality, myth, personal narratives, philosophy, power of myth, psyche, psychoanalysis, purpose, rites of passage, stories, Thomas Mann

The Soundtrack of Fatherhood

October 12, 2012 By Let's Dad! Leave a Comment

Let Aphex Twin, The Game and Billy Ray Cyrus guide you on a musical tour of your dadding journey.

Filed Under: Let's Dad!, The Good Life Tagged With: Aphex Twin, Billy Ray Cyrus, Boney M, colic, Daddy Cool, fatherhood, funny, Hank Williams, Kid Creole, Let's Dad!, milestones, Miley Cyrus, music for dads, musician dads, musicians, Peter Andre, The Game, Trace Adkins

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