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Excerpt from Warren Farrell’s The Boy Crisis
What Dad’s do Differently pgs 146-148 5. Challenging the Kids’ Limits “Enough is enough,” Betty complained to Arnold, Marcy’s dad. “This is only Marcy’s fourth time skiing, and you’re bringing her to the intermediate slope…
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Florida Fights Fatherlessness 2022 – Is Your State Next?
Warren FarrellDr. Warren Farrell has been chosen by the Financial Times as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders. His books are published in over 50 countries, and in 19 languages. They include The…
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Teasing: Emotional Intelligence Training, Dad-Style?
Excerpt, The Boy Crisis pages 148-149 The verbal equivalent of dad-style roughhousing is dad-style teasing. While dad-style boundary enforcement teaches children the meaning of a red light, dad-style roughhousing and teasing provide practice with interpreting…
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Fathers Knows Less?
Excerpt – Warren Farrell, The Boy Crisis (pg 191) How Did Father Knows Best Become Father Knows Less? Parenting while male didn’t always evoke fears of incompetence or sex abuse. Before the Industrial Revolution, boys…
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Increased Exercise Can Reverse Symptoms of ADHD
Excerpt The Boy Crisis pages 358-359 One of the most obvious contributing factors that cause ADHD in children is lack of exercise. The early stages of brain development are particularly dependent on physical exercise, rough-and-tumble…
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Is Dad-Deprivation the Problem, or Is It Poverty, Bad Schools . . . ?
Is Dad-Deprivation the Problem, or Is It Poverty, Bad Schools . . . ?pgs. 122-124 The Boy Crisis When we hear that boys without dads do badly in so many ways, we wonder whether the…