REAL BOYS

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should be stoic, stable, and independent. Boys are not to share their pain or grief openly. Also this code says the boys should be daring and do risky behaviors. The most traumatizing code is the fact that boys should not express feelings which might be mistakenly as “feminine” –dependence, warmth, and empathy. This causes boys to never act this way and hide these feelings. These are the reasons the “mask” is formed over the boy.
Pollack states that there are stereotypes about what boys are and how boys should behave. These stereotypes continue to perpetuated, many of us know some of these are outdated and some are simply untrue. A myth that has been made of boys is “ Boys will be Boys” This thought that nature controls boys behavior is untrue. It is not true that testosterone brings aggression and violence in every boy. The danger with this myth is that people assume that they have less power to affect a boy’s personality, behavior, or emotional development. The truth is that a ...

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to get closer to their boys but they believe cannot because they believes boys need to be independent. This is not true; the mother should get close to the boys. Sometimes it is not society, which forces the boy to be masculine; it is the confusion of the mother. The mother wants her child to grow up and be athletic and tough. This causes boys to sometimes loose the ability to show their emotions and relate with others. Mixed messages from mothers cause an even greater problem they confuse the boy and make the boy think they have not satisfied their mother’s expectations of being a man. By giving her son love and support, she is turning him into a man who is masculine and can also ...

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