Teaching methods, prescription drugs, video games, environmental toxins and the devaluation of masculinity are what negatively affect prepubescent and teenage males. Leonard Sax backs up the notion with his fascinating book “Boys Adrift.” Sax, who also has written the New York Times bestseller “The Collapse of Parenting,” notes five factors causing the growing epidemic of unmotivated boys and underachieving young men. She bucked up and sank the game-winning shot.
Her dad implored her to get back in the game and play tough. A fourth-grade boy elbowed a girl in the face who was getting the best of him during the game. His brood was clad in brown and gray in protest.Ĭontrast that approach to an elementary school basketball game I witnessed about a half decade ago. the red, until his family attended two years ago. His family eschewed the field day, which divides the school via colors, the blue vs. The child told his father, who declared it bullying. At the run-through, the child dropped the orange and was teased by a peer. A neighbor’s child was practicing his event: picking up an orange and racing across a finish line. Perhaps it’s best they’re no longer with us since they would have grimaced if they experienced how our boys have devolved over the last generation.Ī few years ago at my children’s school, a kindergarten class was preparing for the annual field day. My mother and father admired nothing more than grit and tenacity. I never understood that since I grew up the son of a proud member of the aptly titled Greatest Generation. They’re actually proud of hoodwinking their bosses. What a contrast with a few of my friends who admit their goal is to work the least for the most amount of money.
My father, who was intelligent but lacked education since he was forced to quit school early to provide for his Depression-era family, never complained and persevered. He turned 18 just before WWII commenced and served for the entirety of the war. My dad, who was well into his 40s when I was born, had little luck. What a great role model for his namesake. Somehow he would find the energy to hoist his 3-year-old bundle of energy over his shoulder. Life was practically drained from his handsome yet weather-beaten face when he would stumble in with his dirt-covered work boots from a grueling day out in the elements erecting a building. My pillar of granite, so fitting since he worked in construction, was honorable and very hard-working. Honest, strong and responsible were just some of the adjectives that described my venerable father.
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