![]() ![]() I sometimes think most classrooms and pedagogy were invented by boy-hating women with studious girls in mind!Ģ. Their testosterone-fueled bodies are yelling “Let me out of this cage!” We shouldn’t therefore be surprised at their frustrations. It doesn’t matter if it’s homeschool, Christian school, or public school, it’s completely unnatural to confine the primal force of male teenage energy within a few feet of desk space for five, six, seven and more hours a day. The vast majority of teenage boys were not made to sit at desks for hours and hours at a time. I usually try to share some of the hard-won lessons from my own parenting, most of them learned through many painful failures. They are easily distracted, often moody, and totally obsessed with digital media. Similar to my own past experience, these Christian Dads have been struggling to get their boys to study, to do homework, to respect their mother, and do a few chores around the house. ![]() ![]() I’ve had a few conversations with fathers recently about the challenge of raising teenage boys. ![]()
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