{"id":47,"date":"2014-04-18T03:41:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T03:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2015-09-08T06:55:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T06:55:21","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Boys?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #d63734;\">Our boys need us now in ways they have not before &#8230; <\/span><\/h2>\n<p>They are being raised in a very complex world and many of their support systems and developmental frameworks have crumbled.\u00a0As we bring our passionate attention to boys today, and come together to nurture, support, and educate them well, we give a gift not only to them, but to our families, communities, and culture.\u00a0<b>I hope you will agree that it is time for a coordinated grassroots effort to help our sons<\/b>.\u00a0 Let\u2019s do this together with summits and outreach that\u00a0positively alter the cultural landscape for our sons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em style=\"font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.5em;\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0<\/span>Michael Gurian<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Wonder of Boys<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><em style=\"font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.5em;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">and featured speaker at the Arizona Helping Boys Thrive Summit<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Parents and professionals today can sense the hunger in boys for innovative parenting and effective education.\u00a0<b>In nearly every academic and behavioral marker, boys and young men are struggling.<\/b>\u00a0While some males get to the top of corporations and government quite well, millions of males are not thriving. In your own community, you may\u00a0have felt a\u00a0need to study and positively affect the developmental journey of our boys. In every community, we are seeing more and more boys who need our help, and want us to engage with them in successful ways.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #d63734;\">Did you know? \u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Boys make up 80% of school discipline referrals<\/li>\n<li>Boys are four and a half more times likely to be expelled from\u00a0preschool<\/li>\n<li>80% of children in schools on Ritalin are boys<\/li>\n<li>80% of children in school 10-19 who commit suicide are boys<\/li>\n<li>Boys receive two-thirds of the D&#8217;s and F&#8217;s on school report cards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">-Statistics above taken from THE MIND OF BOYS,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> by Michael Gurian<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #d63734;\">Communities are asking these kinds of questions &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>What do boys\u00a0need and how are boys needed in their world?<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Why are boys falling behind girls so severely in so many aspects of life, including school?<\/li>\n<li><i><\/i>\u00a0What is normal development of a boy from infancy to college age?<\/li>\n<li><i><\/i>\u00a0What do boys specifically need from moms and dads, grandparents, and mentors as they develop?<\/li>\n<li><i><\/i>\u00a0What are the best ways for counselors and therapists to work with males?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0What part can faith communities play in the lives of boys? \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0How can we best protect the emotional lives of boys and young men?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0What rites of passage are needed by boys in order for them to become compassionate and successful men?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0How do we best deal\u00a0with\u00a0bullying and most effectively\u00a0end male violence?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>What do boys need in order to thrive?<\/li>\n<li>What can we do in order to help them?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #d63734;\">There are answers! \u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Helping Boys Thrive\u00ae<\/strong> is a positive, life affirming, science based, and practically focused grassroots movement\u00a0that brings together professionals, educators, and community leaders who are working with boys and young men to change the\u00a0storyline by providing the right vehicle for growth and social change.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0annual <strong>Arizona\u00a0Helping Boys Thrive Summit\u00ae<\/strong>\u00a0will answer\u00a0these questions and provide solutions you can implement immediately. \u00a0Keynote speaker, Michael Gurian, New York Times bestselling author of twenty eight books published in twenty-two languages, including the groundbreaking male development trilogy, THE WONDER OF BOYS, THE MINDS OF BOYS, and THE PURPOSE OF BOYS will talk about the issues faced by boys and young men in our complex world, and present solutions to help them. \u00a0The Gurian Institute, conducts research internationally, launches pilot programs and trains professionals. \u00a0Co-founder of the national Helping Boys Thrive Initiative, Michael travels to dozens of communities every year to help catalyze social change on behalf of children.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #d63734;\">What about our girls? <\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We believe this work is not just about boys\u2014it is also about girls. We are now in an era in which girls and women&#8217;s rights will not move to their next level of social success until we solve the issues boys face.\u00a0Michael Gurian, co-founder of Helping Boys Thrive\u00ae and father of two daughters, recently noted, <em>\u201cOur genders are utterly interdependent and the disturbing loss of our males is beginning to significantly harm our females as well.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"style-three\" \/>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #d63734;\">Celebrating together &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mother_son-600x387-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-141 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mother_son-600x387-2.jpg?resize=300%2C193\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mother_son-600x387-2.jpg?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mother_son-600x387-2.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>While the need for the Summit grows, based on the disturbing trends in the social development of boys today, the Summit itself can also be a celebration of\u00a0the vitality and uniqueness of boys and young men.<\/p>\n<p>This is a day to focus on boys\u2019 development and enjoy boy energy and the resilience and vision of our boys and young men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our boys need us now in ways they have not before &#8230; They are being raised in a very complex world and many of their support systems and developmental frameworks have crumbled.\u00a0As we bring our passionate attention to boys today, and come together to nurture, support, and educate them well, we give a gift not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgurian.com\/hbtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}