The Child Psych Podcast Raising Boys: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity with Ruth Whippman, Episode# 93
In this riveting episode with dive deep with Best-Selling author Ruth Whippman about the task of raising boys in a way that charts a new path to give boys a healthier, more expansive, and fulfilling story about their own lives. With young men in the grip of a loneliness epidemic and dying by suicide at a rate of nearly four times their female peers, Whippman digs into the impossibly contradictory pressures boys now face; and the harmful blind spots of male socialization that are leaving boys isolated, emotionally repressed, and adrift.
Ruth Whippman is a British author, journalist and documentary film maker living in the United States. Her essays, cultural criticism and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, Time magazine, New York magazine, The Guardian, The Huffington Post and elsewhere. Fortune Magazine described her as one of the "25 sharpest minds" of the decade. She is a regular speaker at venues including TEDx, Google, The Moth and Somerset House in London and appears regularly as a guest on radio, television and podcasts. To purchase her latest book: “Boy Mom” visit https://www.amazon.com/BoyMom-Reimagining-Boyhood-Impossible-Masculinity-ebook/dp/B0CH9M2CNN/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1703009937&refinements=p_27%3ARuth+Whippman&s=books&sr=1-2
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