The pressure to be traditionally masculine and hide their feelings has affected boys in every aspect of their lives. Now, some are seeing that armor crack amid the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic.
Already at his age, he felt pressure to conform: to play more physically with other boys, to emote less and subvert his own happiness or pain, said Berlin, co-founder of Build Up Boys. The nonprofit group's mission is to teach pre-K through eighth grade boys and their caregivers social and emotional skills to combat gender presssure. A father's guide to raising good men"The energy he was expending trying to do it made him almost feel like a trapped animal," Berlin said.
The question remains of whether this newfound emotional openness will follow these boys back to the classroom, once they return. But the pandemic, even with all the havoc it's wrought, has presented an opportunity to see boys, their needs and struggles, in a new way."The extreme stress of Covid has revealed that the problem is not the boys; it's the boyhood that we make for them," Reichert said.
Gallery photos excerpted from"The Heart of a Boy: Celebrating the Strength and Spirit of Boyhood" by Kate T. Parker . Copyright © 2019.
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