Essays on adolescent boys, masculinity, and what actually works in schools, from a practitioner who spent ten years in the room.
Ten years of working directly with adolescent boys taught me that the problem is almost never the curriculum. It's what has to happen before any curriculum is possible.
Read →Presence matters more than perfection. Ten phrases to help parents, educators, and caregivers navigate hard conversations with kids — without having all the answers.
Read →After a decade working with children, families, and teachers — and nearly 18 years as a parent — here are the honest insights I most wished I could share directly with every family.
Read →The Man Box is a framework for understanding how boys are socialized into limiting ideas of manhood — and a practical exercise for anyone raising or working with boys.
Read →Entitlement, accountability, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, values — five recurring fault lines that shape everything from schoolyard cruelty to how men lead. Understanding them may be the key to healthier masculinity.
Read →Red-pilled spaces don't just promote harmful ideas about women — they defend those ideas with a predictable toolkit of logical fallacies. Breaking down six of them, with real examples from the front lines.
Read →Men are forming emotional bonds with AI chatbots. What does it mean when technology offers everything a man thinks he wants from a relationship — without any of the things that actually make him grow?
Read →When my son started asking to watch R-rated movies and play M-rated games, I didn't just say no. I built something instead — a media literacy curriculum we worked through together. Here's what we watched, and why it changed the conversation.
Read →The Netflix series *Adolescence* put a spotlight on something educators and counselors have been watching for years. Here's what nearly a decade of direct work with boys taught me — and what a practical guide I wrote can help you do about it.
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