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| Subject: Why boys need a boyhood to become good men Thu Jan 09, 2014 4:06 am | |
| Given the current deep community outpourings of concern for the senseless violence present on Australian streets at night, the disturbing numbers of little boys being suspended and expelled from our schools, and the decreasing numbers of young men attending and graduating university, something is going wrong in the world of our boys.
I lay blame on society, which seems to have stolen boyhood in the name of a sanitised, politically correct, gender neutral, bland childhood.
One of the world’s leading writers on boys and men, Michael Gurian, believes the invisible drive at the biological core of manhood is the pursuit to prove self-worth. No one can give a man his self-worth – he has to give this to himself. The guidance of good men, of course, helps.
To find this place, however, boys and men seek external ways to demonstrate potency, victory and independence – and this is what helps shape their search for meaning and purpose in life from a very early age. It is the warrior unfolding from within. Advertisement
There have been several shifts in society that have undermined our children and particularly impacted on our boy warriors.
http://www.essentialkids.com.au/older-kids/development-for-older-kids/why-boys-need-a-boyhood-to-become-good-men-20140108-30gat.html#utm_source=FD&utm_medium=lifeandstylepuff&utm_campaign=boyhood |
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