Boys Will Be Human: A Get-Real Gut-Check Guide to Becoming the Strongest, Kindest, Bravest Person You Can Be

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The system always looms over us to keep us in line. Teaches us we are competition. Teaches us it’s just human nature. It teachers us we have to fight to eat instead of how to make enough to feed each other. There is enough when the wealth gets redistributed. There is PLENTY when we are not being used and extorted. When we are all getting the things we really need instead of the things these companies want to sell us to prove we’re better than or more deserving of comfort or perceived luxury when there are billions of dollars waisted daily by the bourgeoisie. To keep us all ignorant and filling the voids we all naturally get from EACH OTHER. In this incredibly honest, informational, eye-opening nonfiction work. Middle grade & young adult readers will UNLEARN society’s unwritten rules for how boys should behave/feel/act/live their lives. He takes a deep dive into what it means to be HUMAN rather than all the expectations placed on our boys and young men.

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There is more than enough on the planet to sustain us. If we stop playing monopoly. Did you know monopoly was created by a woman with two versions? One showing how capitalism takes and destroys and one version showing how it would work if we all work for each other, with each other, turn towards each other. A Marxist version. Guess what capitalism did to her game? This engagement project is about learning to make connections with words rather than fists. This is about letting young men of color know that their experiences are not isolated and that they are not alone even when they are taught to remain stoic, in-control and dominant. This is about feeling a sense of community and a source of inspiration. This is about hope. With this project, I wanted to provide the space and experience for them to feel comfortable determining their own future; their own path; their own identity apart from societal expectations because this affects more than just boys and men, this affects everyone. With my practicum, I have started and will continue a conversation about how boys are taught to act and feel (or not feel) and why. I built a sense of community among the boys and young men who participated and engaged in conversation with me and one another, and I hope they can lead the charge in changing the narrative around what it means to be a man and how healthy manhood is lived out. Today I speak to a Therapist! His name is Omar Lorente and we dive in to why men act a certain way, Mom vs Dad approvals and what it takes to be a Therapist.

The effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of our time. In this engaging and provocative new book, beloved actor, director, and social activist Justin Baldoni reflects on his own struggles with masculinity. With insight and honesty, he explores a range of difficult, sometimes uncomfortable topics including strength and vulnerability, relationships and marriage, body image, sex and sexuality, racial justice, gender equality, and fatherhood. Man Enough: Undefining my Masculinity” by Justin Baldoni - https://eclectuals.indielite.org/book/9780063055599 I Rewatched ‘HIMYM’ After 4 Years and My Feelings Completely Changed: - https://edtimes.in/i-rewatched-how-i-met-your-mother-after-4-years-and-my-feelings-have-completely-changed/ This book isn’t about learning the rules of the boys’ club, it’s about UNLEARNING them. It’s a get-real guidebook that will show you how to be: This book isn't about learning the rules of the boys' club, it's about UNLEARNING them. It's a get-real guidebook that will show you how to be:• Brave enough to reveal who you really are

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Through conversation both in-person and online, my community and I will help promote a version of masculinity that is less rigid and more inclusive of everyone who intersects with it. Each discussion had 5 to 8 participants so everyone had the opportunity to speak and to be heard with me as the facilitator. In doing that I learned just how important it is to listen empathetically and to be willing to share as much as you ask others to share. A beautiful and heartfelt meditation filled with good advice for boys and those who help raise them. It covers a lot of ground: friendship, body image, sex, and romance (refreshingly treated as two distinct but related topics).It also makes an earnest attempt to be trans and non-binary inclusive. By practicing social journalism and engaging the community, there is a sense of ownership in the work and the media being put out which points to the power dynamic between young men of color and a journalist that is shifting on a fundamental level through my project. You share a lot in the book, and focus on social-emotional learning. What do you hope the takeaway will be? I felt the same amount of disgust while reading Susan Cain's Quiet. There were very few things that I read and said, "Oh I should write this down!!". Very few.

Wanting to serve a community that has historically been underserved by mainstream media, I went to East New York as it is largely a community of color in a low-income area and looked for community centers and other programs where boys and men met already. Over the past few years, I have grown interested in the environment that allows for violence, hatred and misogyny to take place and adjacent to that, how boys and men are socialized. So, I decided to explore a very complex issue: the identity of a man. I wanted to know what it really means to perform masculinity and more about this whole toxic masculinity thing: where it came from, how it is perpetuated and how the use of such language affects the lives of real people. And it turned out, I was not the only one thinking critically about issues related to this community. Earlier this year, the American Psychological Association sounded the alarm when they created the first-ever explicit Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Men and Boys. While there had been previous guidelines for practice with women and girls, transgender people and gender nonconforming people, older adults and even guidelines for certain issue areas, but not for boys and men because for decades, psychology treated men (particularly white men) as the standard for psychological development and treatment.

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Today I speak to three of my female friends about being catcalled and/or sexually harassed. We discuss how close these two things are, they can be separated BUT catcalling leads to more more times than not. Great day for learning and talking to friends however they identify, let's talk!Every young boy needs to have the information in this book. From being “brave” to consent to loving yourself — it’s all so important for the next generation of men to know. One metric that signals that success is the way that they are getting together and gathering even without me or any prompting from me, and also exhibited in the group discussion I am hosting this week even after graduation because members of my community have asked for it. I wanted to do a game show episode with questions about women that men should know by now, and it's a very fun time. I left in big pauses to really show how long it takes for us to answer or not answer these questions! Hope you enjoy! Today, one of my newest friends, Jose, and I discuss masculinity in the Latinx community, animated movies, going to Disneyland and the optics of being a man in the world.

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Praise for Man Enough:“ Man Enoughfilled my heart with courage to do and be better. Oozing truth and love this book was absolutely necessary for me to read. If you’re like me and searching for a push in the right direction… you’ve found it.”— Shawn Mendes Facile pop-psychology from a clinical psychologist with the credentials to know better. Assigning a chapter each to a select range of feelings—nearly all of them painful or negative ones, such as guilt, fear or anger, with but one shorter chapter allotted to the likes of love and joy—Lamia offers generalizations about what emotional responses look and feel like, typical circumstances that might cause them to arise and superficial insights (“Negative or worried thoughts spoil a good mood”). She also offers bland palliative suggestions (“Forgive yourself and move on”), self-quizzes, sound-bite comments in the margins from young people and, in colored boxes labeled “Psych Notes,” relevant research abstracts from cited but hard-to-obtain professional sources. Aside from a mildly discouraging view of “Infatuation,” she isn’t judgmental or prescriptive, but her overview is so cursory that she skips the stages of grief, makes no distinction between disgust and contempt and barely takes notice of depression. Teens and preteens might come away slightly more self-aware, but they won’t find either motivation or tools to help them cope with major upset. (Self-help. 12-16) I encouraged people to follow me on social media and to use the hashtag #boyswillbe to either celebrate the boys and men in their life, to call our or expose traditional, old school ways that are harmful to men and others in their life or to talk about new ways to promote or discuss healthy masculinity — it is meant for as a starter for a wide range of discussions.In this highly politicized society, the term “toxic masculinity” to some is just a liberal scheme to emasculate and blame men. Our cultural concept of manliness glorifies stoicism, strength, virility, and dominance, and we know that it can be harmful to mental health thanks to the American Psychological Association. Be prepared: This book is raw and surprising. There is no subject off-limits or lies detected. Sometimes things might get a little uncomfortable, but that's an important part of getting to know—and believe in—yourself.That is when I found P.S. 292, specifically the after school program put on by Good Shepherd Services. I first connected with the director and assistant director there and showed up consistently without a pen and paper, without an agenda, to get to know the boys in the program. I later connected with the high school students in the same building as the middle school I had developed a relationship with. I invited some of the youth development coordinators for the after school program to come to a group discussion with the 20–28-year-old group, and I did another social experiment type thing in Downtown Brooklyn where I recruited some of the 20–24-year-old men for my group discussion. Praise for Man Enough:“ Man Enoughfilled my heart with courage to do and be better. Oozing truth and love this book was absolutely necessary for me to read. If you’re like me and searching for a push in the right direction… you’ve found it. Shawn Mendes It's not groundbreakingly novel, but it's a good synthesis. One thing I didn't know when I started reading, and which certainly gives this book an element of difference from anything else like it, is that Baldoni, while speaking to a broad audience, frequently draws on his Baha'i faith. Use italics (lyric) and bold (lyric) to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song part I went searching for online spaces in which boys and men were convening on their own around healthy masculinity, but what I found were toxic spaces where men were convening on platforms like 4Chan, Reddit and Twitch where users can use strong, hurtful language while remaining anonymous.