he mental health of our children is becoming increasingly fragile. Wherever we look, we see immense loneliness and confusion in teen communities. In the Phoenix area in the last month, for instance, there have been 9 suicides of children from ages 13 to 18. Nationwide, there are approximately 22 suicides per day, many of them teens. Many other teens do not turn death on themselves but on others as rates …
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November 13, 2017
Last week, Dr. Jim Weber and I visited classrooms at Central Catholic High School in San Antonio, Texas. Central Catholic, a school for boys in the Marianist tradition, is more than 150 years old and deeply committed to raising boys into men of service. In the last decade, GI has been honored to partner with the school as CC became a Gurian Institute Model School six years ago and Center …
November 7, 2017
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are fully entering the digital age(!) and proud to offer a Membership subscription service to educators, parents, mentors, and others who work with boys and girls. All of us at GI believe we are at a time when brain science can help us revolutionize how we teach, raise, and mentor our children. I love speaking in your communities, schools, and conferences, and I love our email …
October 24, 2017
Ever misplace your phone, forget someone’s name, or struggle to find the right words? Of course, you have. It happens to all of us. But if you find it happening more and more it may predict trouble, especially if your memory is worse than it was 10 years ago. People who complain about memory loss have an 80% chance it will get worse unless they do something about it! That’s …
October 11, 2017
As I was writing Saving Our Sons (February 2017) and just recently, as I am completing The Minds of Girls (January 2018), I’ve been receiving more and more emails about a topic I bring up wherever I travel: environmental neurotoxins. These neurotoxins affect children’s physical and mental health at cellular levels but we can’t see them—they are hidden neuro-stressors and can be very dangerous. At a speaking engagement in the Midwest I shared a …
October 3, 2017
Is Children’s Mental Health a School Issue or a Parent Issue? We’ve been alerting our readers to issues in suicide prevention this last few weeks, and I want to follow up with a plea for community partnership on the issue of children’s mental health. The newest national estimate for mental health medication-use among children sits between 1 in 4 and 1 in 5. It is likely, though, that more children …
September 26, 2017
As we honor the passing of the 16th anniversary of one of the deadliest days in the history of the United States of America, we remember the helpers. Those who gave and sacrificed their lives, their time, and their families to aid in the rescue and recovery of others. We are eternally grateful. In tandem, we honor this week of suicide prevention week as we connect the work of The …
September 12, 2017
It doesn’t matter where I am working–from Houston to Nashville, San Antonio to Bel-Air, Bloomfield Hills to Chandler–everyone is wondering the same things. “How do I get my kids off their devices?” “Why would she say something like that online?” “Why is she posting 34 duck faced selfies?” “Why does he act so poorly after playing his video games?” Twelve years ago, when smartphones rolled out, I set out to …
August 23, 2017
Michael Gurian’s new book, The Minds of Girls: A New Path for Raising Healthy, Resilient, And Successful Women, is now published! We hope you will get it for your family and school. Find it at brick and mortar stores and online at amazon.com and other vendors. We are very proud to be the first to announce the book’s publication! “The Minds of Girls is a very important book. In …
January 8, 2018
A blog by Michael Gurian, August 16, 2017 On the day Google software engineer James Damore was fired for writing a Memo about Google’s diversity programs that went viral, my daughter Davita, 24, shot me a quick text: “Dad, I can’t believe they fired the guy. That was the wrong move.” We met the next day and talked at length. The conversation was a wonderful blend of perspectives from a young millennial woman and a baby boomer man. Our …
August 15, 2017
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