From "News & Notes (1/11/06 - 6:23) comes this discussion of boys and their problems, with child psychologist Michael Thompson, the host of the documentary Raising Cain.Here's an older and longer NPR piece, Violence and the Emotional Life of Boys.
The PBS Website has material on the documentary, Raising Cain, including a message by its creator, Michael Thompson and a special section on raising boys with clips from the documentary.
Musings
- Gender differences represent a continual subject of controversy and fascination. What's your take on the general premise that boys have a particular set of problems to overcome in growing up?
- Behind many of the discussions of helping boys in schools, as a step in growing up generally, is the even larger issue of masculinity, and whether or not boys (and maybe men generally) need help in achieving masculinity or, some would argue, overcoming popular conceptions of masculinity. Here two related questions arise: Is the end result of education to narrow the differences between the genders, and do adult males have any special role to play in helping boys become men? What do you think?
- What does this general discussion of raising boys have to do with school violence and issue of bullying?
