Best of 2024

Which ON BOYS episodes were the Best of 2024? Photo by ALINA MATVEYCHEVA via Pexels Your favorites include: 5. Needed: Boy-Friendly Schools Tyler, a 16-year-old Texas boy, started struggling in middle school. Recess was no more. Classes were 90 minutes long. So, “he found it really hard to sit still in class,” says Julie Jargon, the Wall Street Journal Family & Tech columnist who interviewed Tyler for her series on boys and education . Now a high school student, Tyler suggests that “instead of making guys change the way they behave, maybe schools should change the way they’re structured.” 4. Middle School: Misunderstood or Magic? “This is a very pervasive story, that middle school is terrible. But it doesn’t have to be. We make it terrible by working directly against the developmental needs of middle schoolers and designing these buildings and classes in way that make their lives really hard,” says veteran educator Chris Balme , author of Finding the Magic in Middle School: Tapping into the Power and Potential of the Middle School Years. 3. Modern Male Puberty is Awkward Your son may well be annoying, thoughtless, disrespectful, disorganized, smelly, and messy during puberty. None of that means he’ll end up that way as an adult. And none of it means that you’re doing (or have done) something wrong. “The path to building kind, empathic, loving, thoughtful men is a very windy, bumpy road,” Vanessa says. “And at every step of the way, it can be really tempting to lose faith.” 2. How to Raise a Healthy Gamer “Right now, there is an antagonistic relationship between most parents & their kids around video gaming,” Dr. K says. “You think they need to cut back; they don’t think they have a problem. Then, as parents start to institute limits, children will try to undermine them. Even if you ‘win’ in this scenario, you lose.” It’s more helpful, he says, to establish a collaborative relationship. 1. Set Boys Up for School Success “It’s really essential that we, as parents & educators of boys, are preparing them to navigate the struggles within school,” says Dr. Todd (Jason) Feltman, author of Transforming into a Powerful Third, Fourth, or 5th Grade Navigator of School Success. “It’s not just the academic struggles but also the socialization, the physical and emotional struggles.” A few of our other 2024 favorites: Color Blindness in Boys Circumcision: Facts & Myths FBI: Sextortion Targets Boys Navigating Youth Mental Health in the Digital Age Emily Edlynn on A Healthier Approach to Tech Dr. Niobe Way on Reimaging Boys Uplifting Black Boys Benefits All Students Sponsor Spotlight: IXL The world’s most popular subscription-based learning site for K–12! Get 20% off at ixl.com/TODAY Sponsor Spotlight: Hello Fresh Get 10 FREE meals at HelloFresh.com/FreeONBOYS Advertising Inquiries: Privacy & Opt-Out:

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Best of 2024 is an episode from ON BOYS Podcast by Janet Allison, Jennifer LW Fink.

This episode is 40:18 long.

This episode was published on Dec 26, 2024.

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