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 Andrew was a 13-year-old boy who walked into my counseling office with a  lot of issues. He had been diagnosed with a learning disorder and ADD,  and his parents felt he might be depressed. Like many male clients, he  would quickly decide if I as his potential counselor knew how to work  with him as a male. If I did not, he would start trying to leave therapy  in a …

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                                     Posted by                                    Michael Gurian        The new year is here, and we are all starting to live out our resolutions!  This is such a great time to be alive, to be forward  thinking, and to focus our personal energy toward the good.  To that  end:  I hope you will consider adding a resolution to your list about  avoiding environmental neurotoxins this and every year.  Part of my  inspiration for saying …

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In my blog a few weeks ago and in The Minds of Girls I have tried to focus on science-based theory and practice that have proven to close gender gaps. I am arguing that to fully help our daughters, we must push beyond the idea that corporate sexism and “gender stereotypes” are the primary reasons tech and certain STEM fields don’t employ as many women as men. If we do …

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 In Memoriam, Tree of Life Synagogue, 2018 We are a people of gardens and storms, of prayers and history and holiness. We are a people who survived the excesses of God’s masterpiece. We saw the worst that could happen; now we know for sure: there is nothing more worth living for than the road of joy we can each find just off our road of sorrows. We are a people …

  Girls and women are entering STEM fields in large numbers. As a father of two grown daughters, I feel both happiness and relief when I see this sea change. Especially in the S (Science) part of the STEM/STEAM acronym, females have caught up to and are, in some schools, surpassing male participation. For instance, there are now more women entering med school than men, and women are engaging in biology-centered …

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 “Our genomes are 99.9% identical from one person to the next as long as the two individuals being compared are two men or two women. But if we compare a woman and a man, the genetic differences are 15 times greater than the genetic differences for two males or two females.” –David C. Page, M.D., Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Everywhere we look, the two sexes …

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  A girl is obsessed with social media,  a boy with video games.  An adolescent girl defines herself with  selfies and visual sexualization.  A boy sexualizes his brain with porn  use. When I delineate “girls” and “boys” in my lectures, some people  say, “But shouldn’t you say, ‘kids,’ or just ‘teens’?  Girls look at  porn, boys take selfies; girls like video games, boys like social  media.”  “There’s no doubt about …

Michael turns the tables and interviews Tim Wright about his life experiences and the experiences that shaped his life.

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Tim interviews Michael about the life experiences that shaped him into the person he is today and his life’s work.

Is Gender Fluid?  Is there any such thing as male and female?  Tim asks Michael about it in this podcast.

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Michael and Tim talk about the need for rites of passage for our boys and girls and practical ways to implement them.

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Michael looks past ideologies to how boys are wired to emote and how we can help them do so in healthy ways.

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Michael delves into the brain science behind boys and pornography and how we can help our boys from becoming addicted to it.

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 Tracy, 18, called his parents to say  he was not doing well in college.  “I can’t take it,” he said, “I have  to get out.” After insisting he keep trying, his parents did finally  relent: they sent him a ticket to come home and he did.  Three days  later, in his bedroom, he hung himself.  “We missed the signals,” his parents  told me, years later, still grieving.  “But all along, …

Dr. Michael Gurian and Tim Wright are joined by Special Guest Dr. Gregg Jantz as they talk about recent school shootings and boys

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  By: Michael Gurian  Last week, on February 14, 2018, a  teenage gunman slaughtered children and adults at Marjory Stoneman  Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a suburb northwest of Ft.  Lauderdale.  He killed twelve people inside the school walls, three  outside, and two died on the way to the hospital. To ensure his kills,  the gunman used the fire alarm as a weapon—forcing children and teachers  out of the school …

Dr. Gurian talks about how to build resiliency in our girls

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Michael Gurian talks about how to raise healthy and successful daughters

Dr Gurian gives an overview of his newest book: The Minds of Girls.

 By: Michael Gurian  “Our genomes are 99.9% identical from one person to the  next as long as the two individuals being compared are two men or two  women. But if we compare a woman and a man, the genetic differences are  15 times greater than the genetic differences for two males or two  females.” –David C. Page, M.D., Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology I live in Washington …

Tim Asks Dr. Gurian what he would do if he were…the father of a boy, a teacher of a boy, a school administrator, etc.

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    Michael talks with Tim Wright about Christmas through the lens of faith and brain science research

  Today’s date is 12/7/17. What I write here will attach to today’s date yet, I believe, also be universal, not time-sensitive. The scandals are growing.  Our children –whether in school or at home—likely notice the furor. Especially if they are now adolescents or emerging adults, the issue of appropriate sexual conduct and boundaries is crucial to their survival. Today: *Warren Moon, the renowned quarterback and Seattle Seahawks announcer, has …

Michael looks at white matter and gray matter differences in the brains of boys and girls, and he discusses strategies for exciting girls’ gray matter. 

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             We are again proud to feature one of our certified trainer’s, Rosemarie  Engman, and her class at Sacred Heart School in Bellevue, Washington.   If you read this newsletter, you may remember that she and her class are  making video clips of Gurian strategies they use in their classrooms  and buildings.  Rosemarie’s class created an instructional clip for the  “Walk and Talk” strategy earlier in the fall.  Now she has …

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  Michael talks about how rituals and traditions positively impact the brain. 

     We are  proud to feature one of our certified trainer’s, Rosemarie  Engman, and her class at Sacred Heart School in Bellevue, Washington.   If you read this newsletter, you may remember that she and her class are  making video clips of Gurian strategies they use in their classrooms  and buildings.  Rosemarie’s class created an instructional clip for the  “Walk and Talk” strategy earlier in the fall.  Now she has created a …

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 As I was writing Saving Our Sons (February 2017) and just recently, as I am completing The Minds of Girls (January  2018), I’ve been receiving more and more emails about a topic I bring  up wherever I travel:  environmental neurotoxins.  These neurotoxins  affect children’s physical and mental health at cellular levels but we  can’t see them—they are hidden neuro-stressors and can be very  dangerous. At a speaking engagement in the …

We’ve  been alerting our readers to issues in suicide prevention this last few  weeks, and I want to follow up with a plea for community partnership on  the issue of children’s mental health.  The newest national  estimate for mental health medication-use among children sits between 1  in 4 and 1 in 5.  It is likely, though, that more children use these  medications.  Also likely:  more than 20% of American children …

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Michael Gurian discusses how to help children and students with writing and improving their grades. 

Ask Dr. Gurian: Is it always wrong to tell a child, “Stop crying!” Or to put this another way: Because I said this to my son when I was raising him, did I ruin his life? Answer: “Stop crying” can be used too harshly and too often, but many times, this parenting strategy builds resilience, strength, and social adaptation. When I was serving on a conference panel to discuss fatherhood …

Ali McClure  posted a comment on the blog post, Ask Dr. Gurian:  Is it wrong to tell your child “Stop crying!”: A great article. I love the way it puts the balance of two approaches as well as drawing on personal parenting experience. So often as ‘experts’ we are expected to give black and white answers. In reality, the circumstances, people involved and many complex details determine how we should …