A girl is obsessed with social media, a boy with video games. An adolescent girl defines herself with selfies and visual sexualization. A boy sexualizes his brain with porn use. When I delineate “girls” and “boys” in my lectures, some people say, “But shouldn’t you say, ‘kids,’ or just ‘teens’? Girls look at porn, boys take selfies; girls like video games, boys like social media.” “There’s no doubt about …
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June 11, 2018
Dr. Glynetta DeShon (“Fletch”) Fletcher, Assistant Principal of Edwin Markham Middle School in Los Angeles Unified School District, has devoted her life to working in urban public schools with at-risk students. She has taught English Language Arts at the high school level, study skills for incoming college freshmen, and ELA secondary methods for urban educators. As a teacher in an urban high school, she focused on African American males …
May 22, 2018
Tim Wright is a bridge builder between secular and faith communities, and a powerful speaker and teacher. It will be a joy to have him speak at our 2018 Summer Institute. Tim and I have worked on Rites of Passage programs for both boys/families and girls/families–in both secular and faith-based communities. I am Jewish but operate mainly as a secular thinker, and Tim, a Lutheran Pastor, works mainly in the …
May 14, 2018
Dr. Lisa Basista is one of those people who dynamically leads others with excitement and power and yet carries a sense of peace in her, a quiet reflectiveness that allows adolescents and adults around her to grow and learn. Dr. Basista and I first met four years ago and ever since then I’ve been planning ways to have her speak at our Summer Institute. She is a true student …
May 7, 2018
Carolyn Ragatz, one of our certified trainers, wrote me an email that fleshes out the question for this week. “I just read your latest blog on screen time–so important to get that word out and I posted on my fb & twitter pages. I have another related question: we are noticing an increase in students with anxiety. Now, most of this coming to us, according to parents, without any official …
February 12, 2018
The Depressed American Boy: Diagnosing and Treating Male-Type Depression Tracy, 18, called his parents to say he was not doing well in college. “I can’t take it,” he said, “I have to get out.” After insisting he keep trying, his parents did finally relent: they sent him a ticket to come home and he did. Three days later, in his bedroom, he hung himself. “We missed the signals,” his …
March 26, 2018
Jeremy fidgets and clicks his teeth in such a way that he drives his teacher crazy; Latrice is taking notes but not really understanding them; Angie is thinking about five other things; Donnell is angry about what’s happening at home; Alana is terrified she will fail the test, Jamal and Billy already have, Emma is a bully and has been bullied, Zeke, Amy, and six others are on medication for …
January 22, 2018
January 2018 marks the beginning of our third year working with Central Catholic High School in San Antonio, Texas as a Center for Excellence in Educating Boys. Central Catholic, a school for boys in the Marianist tradition, located in San Antonio, Texas, is more than 150 years old. It is institutionally committed to raising boys into empathic and successful men of service. In the last decade, GI has been honored …
February 2, 2018
Troy Kemp is an internationally recognized keynote speaker, and our Sunday keynoter at the Summer Institute this June. His dynamic approach to teaching and mentoring boys has led him to his position as Executive Director of the National Center for the Development of Boys (www.understandingboys.org). Previously, he spent 25 years in the classroom, on the field (Troy is an eight-time state champion and three-time coach of the year recipient …
April 16, 2018
The most recent available data, vetted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, shows children between 2 and 12 spend 4.5 hours per day in front of screens (using their phones, looking into I devices and Pads, watching movies, playing videogames). In U.S. homes with children under 9, 98% have mobile devices. In the majority of these homes parents and other adults hand children their Smart Phones to play on or …
January 29, 2018
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