Two Words You Should Never Tell a Boy…..

“If you cry again I am going to take you back home!” That is what I told my almost 4 year old son on Wednesday night around 8:00pm. We were riding bikes and he was in that overtired state where he could hardly contain his emotions. He was crying. He was...

Shutting Down Boy’s Emotions

I’m currently working on an article for the Fuller Youth Institute on boys and emotions — more specifically how we as a culture tend to sabotage boy’s emotions — making it unsafe for them to express them. As I’ve been editing this...

The Sexualization of our Children

  Now that I’m a parent I am obviously thinking about the issue more, especially since I have a baby girl. It’s amazing to me how early little girls are being sexualized in advertising and culture. Here is the book mentioned in the interview: So Sexy So...