How Your Anxiety is Sabotaging Your Son’s Motivation

ON BOYS Podcast by Janet Allison, Jennifer LW Fink

Apr 24, 20259:35Health

You can’t effectively boost boys’ motivation until you address YOUR anxiety and fear. We know: You want your son to do his homework. To follow through on commitments. To care . So, when he shrugs, resists, or just doesn’...

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