Tag: boy crisis
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International Boys´ Day – Who cares?

International Boys’ Day, May 16, celebrates all the positive elements that boys bring to their families and communities. It also highlights the issues and challenges that boys face as they develop (https://internationalboysday.org.au/about-us/). It’s amazing how little media interest there was in the day. I didn’t see any articles in newspapers or discussions in social media.…
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Boys left behind? Boy crisis and its solution.

In 2011, Philip Zimbardo gave a TED Talk called “The Demise of Guys,” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJgZ4s2E3w). “The Demise” here referred to the fact that we are facing a new world in which young men are getting left behind. There is a new generation of boys and men who are shy, socially awkward, emotionally removed, and unable to…