I'd like to hear your ideas.(?)
We can compare American boys with boys in Canada, Europe and Australia as all have similar cultural, educational, economic and religious influences. But, for some reason their is a very small subset of these boys in the US that act out in far more violent ways than their peers.
They are male, middle upper class, white and usually highly intelligent. They are in an age group where schizophrenia and other psychological most often manifest.
With that, do we over-diagnose, under-diagnose, over-medicate or under-medicate?
I don’t know the answer, but I know the answer is much more difficult than video games or the emasculation of our young men.
Turn off tv and xBox, for you too.
Make sure they respect their mother. AT ALL TIMES.
Get your boys into at least one sport and play with them when possible. Don’t let them quit if it gets hard.
Take them hunting and/or fishing often and teach them difference between needless killing and killing for a reason.
Starting at early age have them help you fix things around house and on cars.
Attend every one of their sporting/school events you can and praise them but also teach them competitiveness and give positive, instructive criticism when they perform poorly. I told all my sons, “second place is the first loser”, but also taught them the reality of you win some you lose some.
Teach them how to handle criticism, they will need it in the work place.
Teach them to be respectful of women and look out for them and the weak.
Do not be afraid to administer hand to behind. If you do it when they are young you don’t have to when they are old. All mine got spankings and after about 6-7 years old never had to again.
Again turn off the tv. Probably the best advise.
I have raised 3 boys, two 3 Afghan tour Marines (one officer and one Sgt, both highly decorated grunts) and one polite, competitive teenager on his way to manhood. My methods work and are proven through time as my parents raised 4 the same way with similar results.