You can have a tremendously positive influence on your boy by just spending quality time with him.
Raising Boys
How To Encourage Your Son’s Sense of Self
How can we parent with gender neutrality so our kids can become their authentic selves?
How can we parent with gender neutrality so our kids can become their authentic selves?
10 Ways to Get Your Son to Open Up and Talk to You
Sometimes talking to your son can feel like a one way conversation.
Why It’s Ok If Your Son Doesn’t Want to Play Sports
Sports are great, but we shouldn’t pressure boys to play just to prove their masculinity.
Teaching Our Boys a New Song
How can we shift the narrative from fear to love?
How can we shift the narrative from fear to love?
7 Keys for Raising Low-Tech Boys—My Son’s Never-Bored Adventures in Lo-Fi
Hi-Tech, Low-Tech, or No-Tech: are our boys being raised right in the digital age?
I Won’t Tell My 4-Year-Old Son To ‘Man Up.’ Not Now. Not Ever.
Instead of imposing society's toxic expectations of masculinity, Paget Norton works on developing in her son these more useful qualities.
Instead of imposing society’s toxic expectations of masculinity, Paget Norton works on developing in her son these more useful qualities.
A Long Distance Lesson in Raising a Son
She knew her son would further his independence, learn to adapt to new situations, and develop into his own person. She didn't know she'd be doing the same.
She knew her son would further his independence, learn to adapt to new situations, and develop into his own person. She didn’t know she’d be doing the same.
Non-Toxic Parents Can Change Masculinity
Who’s raising the "boys will be boys" boys?
—This question popped into my mind during the three-ring circus that was erected in Washington, DC more than two years ago since the presidential campaign when the infamous ‘pussy grabbing’ tape was released. The words of the current holder of the Oval Office was dismissed as ‘locker room talk,’ with a wink and a nod…
How I Told My 7 Year-Old That He Has Down Syndrome
Kari Wagner-Peck knew that talking to her son about Down Syndrome would be a lifetime of conversations…but they had to start somewhere.
How To Explain Rape to a Toddler
Here's how you can give him some empowering tools to know that he can and should speak up when his personal space is violated or when he sees other people having their personal space violated.
Here’s how you can give him some empowering tools to know that he can and should speak up when his personal space is violated or when he sees other people having their personal space violated.
My Dear Son, About Those Aliens In Your Head
A father gives his son six ways to drown out the voices of doubt and fear.
Dear Parents, Let’s Talk About Kids and Gender Roles
Gretchen Edwards-Bodmer is raising a happy and joyful son without following rigid gender roles or rules. And she wants you to understand why.
Raising Boys in Our Rape Culture (A Call for Submissions)
How can we move from "boys will be boys" to teaching personal responsibility for our actions?
How can we move from “boys will be boys” to teaching personal responsibility for our actions?
4 Superpowers to Awaken in Your Child
“We talk so much about leaving a better planet to our kids, that we forget to leave better kids to our planet.” -Gerry Burnie
My Dear Son, 3 Traits I Hope You Choose in Your Friends
As a father he’d love to hand pick his son’s friends, but really there are three things that matter most.