thankful for boys…
i have felt more of an urgency more recently to be more intentional about learning how to mindfully parent my boy….
i am reading Real Boys written by william pollack. this is a bit of the review offered on Amazon…”Pollack dismantles what he terms “the Boy Code”, society’s image of boys as tough, cool, rambunctious and obsessed with sports, cars and sex. These stereotypes, he argues, thwart creativity and originality in boys. Linking clinical insights to practical suggestions, Pollack advises caregivers how to help boys repair their fragile self-esteem, develop empathy and explore their sensitive sides…”
“Pollack has seen behind the stoic masks of troubled, modern boys as they struggle to cope with the mixed messages, conflicting expectations, and increasingly complex demands they receive from our evolving society. “New research shows that boys are faring less well … that many boys have remarkably fragile self-esteem, and that the rates of both depression and suicide in boys are frighteningly on the rise.”"
so the wild thing is i have witnessed glimpses of this ”boy code” that pervades our society’s expectations of boys already informing and affecting jeremiah…and how i so long to be a parent that nurtures and supports his having the courage to live alternatively…continuing to create beautiful things in this world while discovering his masculine gifts as a whole, creative, unique being.
