Our newsletter today is by Tim Wright, host of the Wonder of Parenting podcast with Michael Gurian (wonderofparenting.com), author of timwrightbooks.substack.com, and author of the Toby Baxter young adult book series. Tim will speak at our What Boys Need As Males Conference in January 2026 (www.helpingboysthrive.org). On their podcast, Tim and Michael are often asked about good screen time rules for kids. Today, Tim offers insights into the question from …

Earlier in the year, we proudly announced that Army and Navy Academy (ANA) in Carlsbad, CA had become a Gurian Center for Educational Excellence.  ANA has continued its work with the Gurian Institute (GI) this summer and fall and GI has completed an Independent Study of the school to be published soon. Michael Gurian will be speaking to educators and parents at ANA on September 19 and 20. To …

Paul Cumbo has been a high school teacher for more than two decades.  He also runs The Camino Institute, and he has authored Wilderness Therapy, his latest non-fiction work, A Path to Manhood, and other acclaimed books. Paul has been studying social media use, especially among young adults, for a long time.  We are delighted to publish his blog post from paulcumbo.substack.com as the subject of today’s newsletter. It is a powerful and very useful …

Therapist Tom Golden has written extensively on social issues over the last many decades. This week we share with you his Substack article on offending, taking things too personally, resilience, and many other important themes all packed into one powerful article. To learn more about Tom’s work, check out Swallowing the Snake, an important book about working through grief and loss, acclaimed by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. You might also like his …

Dr. Gregory Jantz, who spoke at our Summer Institute this year, wrote Raising Boys By Design, with Michael Gurian, sponsored the Wonder of Parenting Podcast, and, with his wife LaFon, was a close friend of Michael and Gail Gurian, has just passed away from an accident with his car.  We are deeply saddened by his loss. To point to his life-wisdom and to his legacy, we are publishing his most …