Should We Rethink How We Raise Boys? Do We Need To Change Their Toys? Encourage Self-Soothing? What Is The Best Way To Communicate Ideas of Masculinity? Is It Possible We Are Just Overthinking this?

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "There seems to be an urge to do things differently, to rear young men without the same certainties and biases that previously we absorbed by rote. Mine’s not the first generation of parents to be thinking about all this, and fretfully. In the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, the 00s, there were many mothers and some fathers who looked at each other and asked: what ought we be doing differently with boys? Perhaps what’s new is the urgency, a sense of enough-being-enough. Perhaps what’s new is that men, in greater numbers, are acknowledging the need for a rethink. Parents and those caring for sons have been wondering (and wondering, and wondering again): if change is to begin with us, how should a boy be raised now?" This paragraph comes from an essay in The Guardian titled: "How to raise a boy: my mission to bring up a son fit for the 21st century."  The essay is written by Tom Lamont.  You can read the essay here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/aug/01/how-to-raise-a-boy-my-mission-to-bring-up-a-son-fit-for-the-21st-century Zac and Don are joined by their wives Lynn and Michelle.  The four discuss boys and if they need to be raised differently.  They talk about some of the proposed strategies.  They talk about some of the current critiques that are brought up when it comes to raising boys. The follow article and book are also discussed during the podcast. New York Times: "What We Are Not Teaching Boys About Being Human" (Ruth Whippman)  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/06/opinion/boys-gender-books-culture.html Book: Boys Adrift (Leonard Sax) https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Adrift-Epidemic-Unmotivated-Underachieving/dp/0465072100