Our school communities could see a major shift if we leveraged this year’s inherent uncertainty to prioritize teaching resilience, mental wellness and healthy relationships over simply checking off curriculum learning objectives
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The different ways to use this deck are endless. Mixing up the rules can add energy, focus and depth. Whatever you do, make it yours.
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We’re constantly doing research about boyhood masculinities and community- and school-based programs, and recently came across a thought-provoking framework for community-based rites of passage.
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In May, a longtime friend messaged me on Instagram. “This is a thought I have pondered and I expect you to have written about,” he said. “Is there positive masculinity? Or should we drop it altogether?”
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The significance of inappropriate humour isn’t the joke itself, it’s the habit. So my method of intervening with the boys isn’t so much about watching for specific memes as it is about helping them practice skills and patterns of understanding and acknowledging the humanity behind the jokes.
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Next Gen Men’s Board of Directors has changed a lot since its inception in 2017! From new faces to farewells, and strategies to successes, there’s a lot to cover in this Board update from our Chair, Rebecca.
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Stress is one of the most common things that young people talk about in our conversations about mental health—it dominates many of their school environments or peer communities. Yet stress is also a normal part of everyday life and a healthy part of child development.
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Values can be both culture and compass. They can be a foundation, to help a group build friendship, trust and respect. They can also help set expectations and communicate boundaries.
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My job is not to protect myself from unwanted critique. My job is to provide a space that is safe, supportive and open to boys being themselves. I have to role model that.
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The expression of fatherhood in When My Son Died has been a keystone piece of writing for me in trying to better understand the experiences of intergenerational trauma inflicted upon Indigenous lives in Canada.
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To recognize the start of Pride Month, I wanted to feature a list of high-quality LGBTQ+ children’s books for parents to read with their young ones or teachers to include in their classroom. So here’s a short list of books for a spectrum of boys—for pride, and Pride.
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To all the people in our communities, across Canada as well as in the U.S. and beyond, to the many people who I know are hurt, angry, overwhelmed and emotionally raw—I want you to know that Next Gen Men stands with you.
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