As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become adults, we become their inner situation. We become inner voices they often hear in their work, relationships and spiritual practice.

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the teacher's job in relation to this stress is ultimately to help the child learn to manage his or her own stress wisely. In accomplishing this, the teacher mentors higher academic learning by removing distracting stress, and teaches valuable life-survival skills.

Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'this is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.