In this special edition of our normal newsletter, I want to share some thoughts about how to talk with kids about the COVID crisis, manage your plethora of new family time while schools are closed, and stay sane during what will be hard times for all of us.   Tim Wright and I did a podcast on this subject just two days ago which you can access on www.wonderofparenting.com by subscribing …

Here’s some shocking data for you. Or maybe, if you work in a school, not so shocking.  Across the United States, *boys receive two-thirds of the D’s and F’s in our schools but less than 40% of the A’s  *boys are twice as likely as girls to be labeled “emotionally disturbed” and twice as likely to be diagnosed with a behavioral or learning disorder  *boys are four times as likely …

The title of this blog could get put this other way:   “Because I said, ‘Stop crying’ to my son when I was raising him, did I ruin his life?”  I have been asked questions like this for more than thirty years, including recently, when I was serving on a conference panel to discuss fatherhood.  At this conference, I heard another panel member tell the audience that a boy’s future health …