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Father & Child Relationships

What All Boys Need to Hear From Their Fathers

By Chris Illuminati

What I Needed My Dad To Tell Me When I Was a Young Man

By Lizzy Francis

My Kids Grew Up Alongside Iron Man. I Wouldn't Have it Any Other Way

By Jeremy Brown

Father & Child Relationships

What Today's Boys Need Most of All

By Michael Reichert

What I Wish I Knew When My Kids Were Still Little

By Matt Christensen

Fatherly Voices

On Kids' TV, Why Aren't Any Girls in Charge?

By Monica Pierce

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How to Teach Young Kids About Consent Teaching a kid about consent has nothing to do with teaching them about sex. It’s about respecting boundaries.

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8 Harsh Truths About Raising Boys That Every Dad Should Understand The way men raise boys needs to change and that change needs to start with a child's emotional life, friendships and the way their fathers view the world they live in.

Father & Child Relationships

Society Is Failing Its Boys. Here’s How Parents Can Help Save Them. "It's easy to mistakenly believe that boys are hearty enough to weather the inevitable cruelties of their peers and the world."

Premium Cable Channel Smut is Disappearing. That’s Bad for Kids Late night cable adult programming is being phased out for lack of viewership, which means curious adolescents will be left with the pornographic terror of the Internet.

The Dad's Guide to Hosting (and Surviving) Your Kid's First Sleepover From one father to another, here are some tips to keep in mind.

Father & Child Relationships

I Tried Having My Kids Punish Themselves and Found Inner Peace A week of letting my children choose their own consequences showed that kids have an innate sense of restorative justice when they want to.

I Played With My Kid One-on-One and Found Out He Doesn't Hate Me An experiment to get closer to an ornery 5-year-old proves play can make people closer and make others jealous.

I Call My Sons Sweetheart. So What? A flowery term of endearment isn’t just a way to let my boys know how much the mean to me. It’s a way to hold onto a childhood fading too fast for comfort.

Father & Child Relationships

7 Toxic Phrases Parents Need to Stop Saying to Their Sons “Boys will be boys.”

Father & Child Relationships

Philip Roth Saved Boys From the Shame of Masturbation Philip Roth, who died yesterday at the age of 85, was crucial in stripping the shame away from every boy's favorite pastime of self-love.

I Stopped Cuddling My Kids for a Week and Glimpsed My Lonely Future In attempt to understand how physically distant dads parent their boys, I stopped cuddling my kids and realized that one day I won’t have a choice in the matter.

Father & Child Relationships

How To Protect Young Male Athletes From Themselves Boys may experience major sports injuries that lead to ACL injury symptom and Tommy Johns surgery if they are allowed to specialize in a single sport.

How to Teach Boys to Pee Standing Up A lot of toilet training is the same between boys and girls, but boys have to learn to aim. Indoors that’s messy – outdoors it’s great fun.

Product Designers Prey on the Weakness of Boys Yes, evolution has something to do with it. But it's not that simple.

The True Rite of Manhood Bring your boys to the woods if you want. Show them how to use their hands. Help them become strong. But, most importantly, teach them to be kind.

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