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Men’s Rites of Passage: The Almost Lost Tradition
Even in our technologically advanced society the ancient Rite of Passage has much to offer the Modern Man and may in fact help him find his way within it. — Even as a teenage boy growing up in Upstate...
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A Dad’s Sad Good-Bye to the Baby Years
In a conversation with his two-year old daughter, blogger Ian Colvin realized that he is about to say good bye to the “baby years” forever. He’s not sure he is ready. — “Daddy, hold hand.” “Daddy,...
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3 Things Young Men Learn From Initiation Rituals
Helping young men be at peace with themselves, overcome their fears, and make the world a better place At the root of many of today’s social, political and economic challenges is a crisis in...
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Meet the Green Man: Archetype for A Wild Soul
View image | gettyimages.com Somewhere in your soul, there’s a wild man of the wood waiting to be discovered. — After days of cold, grey rain, I needed to get out and walk. Opening the gate in the...
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A Dad Laments the Journey From the “Wonderful Ones” to the “Terrible Twos”
Dad Casey Cavalier chronicles the path of his son Eddie, who was a stellar one-year old. Now at two, he is completely characteristic of the age. Here is the story. — “No!” is my son Eddie’s favorite...
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The Male Rites of Passage
Embed from Getty Images Is an active, purposeful fatherhood one of our culture’s most important rites of passage? — The idea of the rites of passage into manhood has really been on my mind lately....
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A GMP Exclusive Interview with Filmmaker Frederick Marx on Rites of Passage...
How can we help young men grow into mature adults? Frederick Marx shows us the way through the power of film. — Frederick Marx is an internationally acclaimed Oscar- and Emmy-nominated director/writer...
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From Man to Dad
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before. —L....
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Male Rites of Passage with Journeymen Founder, Nicky Wilks
Embed from Getty Images — Real Men Feel: Episode 54, Male Rites of Passage with Journeymen Founder, Nicky Wilks Male Rites of Passage with Nicky Wilks, Episode 54, April 4, 2017 This week on Real Men...
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Boys Will be Boys
Embed from Getty Images Boys just want to have fun. Good clean fun. To some people, this may seem loud and obnoxious, but generally its not. As a society, we need to allow boys to have fun, experience...
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The Fragrance of Female Adolescence
— The post The Fragrance of Female Adolescence appeared first on The Good Men Project.
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The Rabbit Hunt: A Rite of Passage for Boys to Men
— In the Florida Everglades, rabbit hunting is a rite of passage for young men, practiced since the early 1900s. The Rabbit Hunt follows a family as they hunt in the fields of an industrial sugar farm....
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The Dad Body: An Owner’s Guide
Embed from Getty Images — So, it’s happened, you’re a dad. CONGRATULATIONS. Yet, as the euphoria fades and the reality of day to day life with children settles, it’s likely that you’ve had some...
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Living and Embodying Your Unique Code—Day 11 of The Inspired Man Summit
Embed from Getty Images — In traditional cultures, boys knew what it meant to be a virtuous man. If you were a boy of one of tens of thousands of wilderness dwelling tribes, you knew it was to become...
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Why Women Should Have More of a Say in Male Rites of Passage
Mmampho KB Gogela, Walter Sisulu University Each year scores of boys from the amaXhosa nation take part in ulwaluko in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. This involves the boys living in secluded...
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How Teens Drink
Before the energy drink slash cocktail and butt-chugging, there was “The Watermelon Crawl” and “Mr. Boston’s.” As an adolescent, I considered myself to be fairly straight-laced. The son of an...
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The Aftermath of Coming Undone: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted? (Part 2)
(Part One Here) I was told when I was growing up that I was going probably going to have a heart attack and die before I was 25. I was told I worried too much, I loved too hard, and I cared too much....
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The Social Network [2010 Movie Review]
Ironically, Facebook is all about the girl. In the opening of Director David Fincher’s “The Social Network”, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) gets dumped by his girlfriend BU student...
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My Nonbinary Transition Means Redefining My Name and My Self
— “My name is Foster and my pronouns are he/they,” is how I introduce myself now. When I came out as nonbinary trans, I let go of the social markers that used to describe me. I needed a new name for...
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Rites of Passage
— What would you consider the transition period of your life? Many cultures past and present have rites of passage, experiences that mark and confirm the passage from childhood to adulthood identity....
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