I was traveling recently and happened to sit on the airplane next to a “sex-ender.”  I did not know that she was this person until after we exchanged small talk.  When we got to a point of talking about what we did for a living, I learned that she was a sociology professor at a well-known university.  Once she heard what I do for a living, she said, “Oh,” not …

In the area of sex and gender, we are seeing pressure to form a culture of the exception.  While all of us are, by nature, male and female (sex), including gender nonconforming children and adults, most of what we talk about in our schools, homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, and organizations is gender. You will likely have noticed the linguistic replacement happening around you.  Perhaps you have seen “gender equity” when the …

“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance” – Title IX A school principal called me recently about our Gurian Institute team providing Pilot programs in that district.  The administration has disaggregated district test score, grades, and discipline data in accordance …

You’ve probably heard about the culture experiment of “gender-neutral babies.”  While this experiment involves only a small number of parents worldwide, it garners a lot of press, and from press comes pressure.  Some parents now wonder if they are being shameful, oppressive, and abusive by loving their children as female and male. School and district leaders wonder, too: despite that boys are falling behind in education worldwide, “Do ‘boy’ and …

This last weekend, Michael Gurian officiated the wedding of his and Gail’s daughter Davita to Ben Herrington at their climbing gym, Rock Shop, in Richland, WA.  Nearly two years ago, he did the same for their daughter Gabrielle and Jack Guen-Murray at their home in Spokane. To celebrate everyone’s search for lifelong love we are publishing Michael’s words for the couples in our Story of a Man blog this week.  …

Our friend and one of the sponsors of our Wonder of Parenting Podcast is the psychologist, Dr. Gregory Jantz, author of more than 30 books in psychology and education and co-founder of The Center, A Place of Hope.  Dr. Jantz and his team have provided this week’s blog post on a key topic of American life, though many Americans (and world citizens, too) don’t realize how significant the suicide crisis …

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Our blog this week features a powerful blog from Rachel Ehmke at the Child Mind Institute in New York.   Experts at the CMI and elsewhere, including here at the Gurian Institute, caution that our children, influenced by social media, are growing up with more anxiety and less self-esteem. This is showing up a great deal among our teens. Many parents worry about how exposure to technology might affect toddlers developmentally. …

This week’s newsletter is a poem about love that my readers will recognize also for scientific underpinnings.   I publish this now in anticipation of the wedding of my daughter, Davita, to her fiance, Ben, next month. The poem is called, “The Dance of Eggs and Stones.”  I published it in my book, THE WONDER OF AGING (Atria, 2013).  Enjoy!   The Dance of Eggs and Stones   Every day we …