As a long time member of the Good Men Project family, I can tell you from long experience that it is devoted to new and more wide ranging ways for men and women to design and live their lives. The Good Men Project is now creating a whole new set of tools for better life […]
Just two nights ago I saw the production of She in New York City. Written and choreographed by dancer Jinah Parker and directed by Phaedra Michelle Scott, She is a life-changing theatrical experience. You can not watch this play and not be shocked into a reappraisal of your world, compelled by the clarity and passion embodied by She’s actors and […]
Single dads are fiercely committed to their little ones saying, by action and by word, “you are loved.” Dads who choose to co-parent are a growing subset of divorced parents with kids. As more and more married fathers take on a major role in day to day parenting, they remain committed to full time engaged parenting following divorce. Co-parenting dads are focused […]
I don’t hold eye contact, I don’t look for more than a second and I don’t let my gaze linger. I do all these things out of respect for one simple fact. I live in New York City where, when I walk down the street, I see literally thousands of women a month walking […]
There is a commonly held cultural narrative which goes something like this: Men who share their emotions make better husbands and fathers. Women value this in a prospective partner because women are already naturally able to share their emotions. In a nutshell, women are the emotionally able ones, men can learn to be. Growing more empowered relational capacities for […]
A manifesto: We must commit to granting our children their birthright, which is their inherent capacity to form authentic, emotionally vibrant relationships. All we need do is stop training them out of these capacities, either by action or inaction. Through helping them grow their relational intelligence, we can insure they become what they are born to be, emotionally connected, joyful and thriving human beings. *** We Need to Redefine […]
When we help our kids grow their relational capacities; namely how they create and care for relationships, it insures a better life for them. Emotional intelligence or emotional quotient (EQ) is commonly understood to mean emotional self-awareness, the ability to name, understand and manage our emotions. You may also be aquainted with the term Social Emotional Learning, […]
This tweet stream on male emotional isolation was born out of an article published by the Boston Globe titled The biggest threat facing middle-age men isn’t smoking or obesity. It’s loneliness. Feel free to join us on Twitter at Follow @Remakingmanhood Male Emotional Isolation – Curated tweets by RemakingManhood
It can break our hearts when our kids say, “I’m an idiot.” The Idiot, Horrible, Stupid Game is a fun game designed to turn that situation upside down! Its one of the many games that can be found in our upcoming The Forever Book, a guide for growing our kids relational intelligence. — Idiot. Horrible. Stupid. Ah, […]
Since its original publication, this article has been shared over 100,000 times on Facebook. Mark Greene explores how in American culture, men avoid all contact rather than risk even the hint of causing unwanted sexual touch.