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So when you think about how boys, especially young boys behave, what comes to mind, chances

are if you're like so many other people, some form of aggressive behavior, fighting, rambunctious,

too much energy, turns out that so much of this is complete myth and so much also is not

something that's actually a natural part of that experience, but it's learned, it's

taught. So my guest today, Michael record is the founding director of the Center for the

Study of Boys and Girls Lives at the University of Pennsylvania and he is a clinical practitioner

specializing in boys and men who has also conducted extensive research around the world.

And in his recent book Had a Raise a Boy, he shares really powerful stories and research

about the behaviors and roles and expectations that we place on young boys and how that often

locks them into ways of being that are destructive, not only in their own lives, but also potentially

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