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The more a boy represses his feelings and puts armor around his heart, the harder it is to open our hearts to him.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
It is exactly this men’s health void that creates your son’s men’s health opportunity.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Empathy is a virtue which, when it only goes from parent to child, and is not required of the child, becomes a vice.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
More black boys between ten and twenty are killed by homicide than by the next nine leading causes of death combined.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
When boys and men are told they are needed, they respond, and become responsible.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
“Flag football is so much more about strategy. You can’t ‘take someone out’ with your body, so it’s more about your mind.”
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Many of the qualities your son develops to kill in war—or be a hero at work—undermine the qualities it takes to love at home.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Tackle football is a body-mind sport; flag football is a mind-body sport.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
When your son has sex with a woman, he puts his life in her hands.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Compassionate listening positively affects the development of an adolescent’s brain in a way that affects the rest of his or her life.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Young men between twenty-five and thirty-one are 66 percent more likely than their female counterparts to be living with their parents.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The male-female life expectancy gap has grown almost 400 percent.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Even if a soldier lives, the risks of war come home with the warrior—that for every soldier killed, about twenty-five veterans kill themselves.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Whether via forced unemployment, retirement, or loss of spouse, men’s response of suicide can just be the killing of what has already been killed.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
And without love, your son’s purpose has no purpose.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The exchange of wit-covered put-downs is boys’ and men’s unconscious way of training each other to handle the criticism it takes to become successful.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Worth less, men considered themselves worthless.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The motto for the evolved boy is “When the going gets tough, tune in to know when to tough it out.”
The Boy Crisis (2018)
In The Deadliest Catch, the death the men face is the source of entertainment, but not of concern.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
If your son sees being an oppressor as his future, being a failure to launch might look like progress.
The Boy Crisis (2018)