{"id":163955,"date":"2025-11-05T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/163955\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:16:12","slug":"the-laissez-faire-approach-to-raising-boys-isnt-working-how-to-talk-to-young-men-about-drugs-sex-and-other-difficult-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/163955\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The laissez-faire approach to raising boys isn\u2019t working\u2019 \u2013 how to talk to young men about drugs, sex and other difficult topics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">A new how-to manual for parents of tweens and teens is an expert guide in how to connect with boys while tackling some tricky subjects\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Like all teens, boys have big feelings \u2013 encourage them to feel the feelings. Image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tyImages_2160724038.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Like all teens, boys have big feelings \u2013 encourage them to feel the feelings. Image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Boys, boys, boys \u2013 so much easier than girls. More straightforward, less emotional. Altogether simpler. Apart from when they act out, but that\u2019s OK, because boys will be boys. They barely need any parenting at all, other than a reminder not to get anyone pregnant \u2013 right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cHere\u2019s the reality,\u201d write Joanna Schroeder and Christopher Pepper in their new book, Talk To Your Boys, a how-to manual for the parents of tweens and teens. \u201cThis laissez-faire approach to raising boys isn\u2019t working. An increasing number of boys say they feel lonely and isolated.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new how-to manual for parents of tweens and teens is an expert guide in how to connect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,94699],"class_list":{"0":"post-163955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-suzanne-harrington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115496339901327421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}