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[quote=Anonymous]I appreciate the responses on here from parents who have older boy. It is interesting to hear about sports and role models. I have young boys who do not seem into sports but maybe I need to think about pushing this more.

I do sometimes worry about raising my boys. I think both genders have their own issues and worries but at my kids age, early elementary, it sure seems the boys are the ones struggling. The girl parents are mostly on auto pilot and their daughters do just fine, whereas the boy parents are getting calls about not reading well enough, handwriting not being neat enough,  just more likely to be behind the curve. (And this is a class where the boys are quite well behaved, so no behavioral problems).

I also worry that with AI, the first rounds of jobs being affected will be STEM jobs, which boys have traditionally gravitated towards. I have one son who is clearly STEM minded, and while this would have been great news a few years ago, now I worry what that future will look like. Boys and men are already struggling and if the stem jobs go, whereas the creative/nurturing jobs stay (which traditionally attract women), then we are really in deep trouble. Expect a LOT more lost young men. [/quote]

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