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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teach your boys to interact with girls.  Teach your boys to interact with one another in the real world and not only online.  Far too many young men's only interaction with other people is through screens.  Men aren't encouraged to have friends with other men.  Men are socially isolated and incompetent.[/quote]

I wouldn't focus so much on the online and screens issue. That stinks of "kids these days and their rock & roll music." But the rest is completely accurate - teach boys how to interact with one another and with girls, encourage them to have friends with other men and with women. Facilitate spaces where low key, non-anonymous interactions are common. (I think the main problem with the online/screen interaction has more to do with the anonymity and less to do with the medium itself.) [/quote]

Screens are absolutely part of the problem. The happiest teens are the ones who participate in in-person activities, not just lie in bed all night texting their friends. Some parents like the fact that their kids are staying home more and not always out with friends, but a huge part of maturation is socializing and learning appropriate in-person behavior and norms, as well as separating from parents and becoming independent.

This article focuses on men, but suicide and alcohol abuse are up for women and girls, too.[/quote]

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