Fatherhood
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Our Boys are in a Crisis. I Published a Guide to Help the Adults who Care.
Adolescence, a new 4-episode series on Netflix, has been making waves, and rightly so. Aside from the technical marvel of having each episode done in one single take, it’s also brought important conversations around boyhood and masculinity back to the forefront of our conversations. With my training in media studies, I’m going to fight every urge…
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Opening the Doors to R-rated Movies and M-rated Games for my Child: A Parenting Win Story
Today I want to write about screen time. If you’re a parent in these crazy modern and financially privileged times, I’m sure you’re familiar with it. Everyone has their thoughts, their criticisms, their frustrations…their judgments of other parents’ thoughts and criticisms. I’ve often hated it. How much is too much? Does it really matter if…
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Father and Son III: The Final Chapter in the Poetic Trilogy
What a journey these poems have taken me through. What started as a single poem turned into an unexpected trilogy that somehow provides the closure the first poem needed all along. If you haven’t already, you might want to read (or re-read!) the first two parts, since they follow a chronological order: Part 1 and Part 2. Thank…
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Father and Son 2: A Poetic Sequel for the #MeToo Era
After writing the first Father and Son poem, I got some great feedback from friends and soon realized I still had more to say. Thus, Father and Son 2 was born. In the first poem, the father takes his time to reply and try to show his son a beautiful way to live his life. It’s kind…
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Father and Son: A Poem for the #MeToo Era
First of all, I don’t like calling it a “MeToo Era,” because it feels like I’m saying that it’s a brand new thing that suddenly’s been happening. Like men haven’t been the perpetrators of horrific sexual crimes for thousands of years. But I couldn’t think of a better title for this post, so here we…
Munib Rezaie, PhD 