In an instant, your teacher is not your teacher, your class is not your class. You watch from the backseat as the school, and then the soccer field, and then the street fade into the rearview of spacetime. Before you lies only the wild unknown.
thank you so much for including my piece about boys and loneliness. I'm so appreciative. I write about this and many more boy-related topics in my new book, BOYMOM, Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity (it's a mix of memoir and reporting- I have three sons of my own.)
It's at the top of my summer reading list! Thank you, Ruth, for giving voice to what so many of us have been feeling but have not quite been able to articulate. I have a boy and a girl, and I can attest that the experiences / expectations / receptions / characterizations they encounter in this world are wildly different.
thank you so much- and yes this makes so much sense- we all get hung up on the nature vs nurture thing but the culture alone is just so different… truly appreciate this
thank you so much for including my piece about boys and loneliness. I'm so appreciative. I write about this and many more boy-related topics in my new book, BOYMOM, Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity (it's a mix of memoir and reporting- I have three sons of my own.)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705378/boymom-by-ruth-whippman/
It's at the top of my summer reading list! Thank you, Ruth, for giving voice to what so many of us have been feeling but have not quite been able to articulate. I have a boy and a girl, and I can attest that the experiences / expectations / receptions / characterizations they encounter in this world are wildly different.
thank you so much- and yes this makes so much sense- we all get hung up on the nature vs nurture thing but the culture alone is just so different… truly appreciate this
That’s amazing, congratulations on your new book! Your perspective on boys and loneliness is so important. Keep up the great work!