Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - July 4, 1999, Waterloo, Iowa FALLS COURIER SUNDAY JULY 4 1999 PAGE E3 Boys need emotional outlet The Providence Journal WARWICK Kindlon paints a clear picture of how ently parents deal with their sons and daughters Imagine he said if a little girl walked out of her parents bedroom wearing her father's clothes tie shoes hat Most parents would con- sider the sight irresistibly cute and probably take photographs Kindlon pointed out But consider if a young boy did the same thing but this time dressed in his mother's clothes assessment that the reaction from most parents would probably be a tle less than enthusiastic struck a nerve The example was meant to trate how boys are trained to be tough and stoic while girls are allowed to keep their emotional spouts open The result is young boys who are helpless when it comes to dealing with emotions a frightening prospect for society and the kids themselves that often results in violence he said Boys get to the point where they're overwhelmed by emotion and they can't handle he said And they only have one outlet He has recently a bestseller titled Raising the Emotional Life of Boys Kindlon holds joint assistant in the psychiatry ment of the Harvard Medical School and the department of maternal and child health care at the Harvard School of Public Health The specter of recent school shootings in Littleton Colo ers Ga and other cities throughout the country was a backdrop to lon's speech He said teachers and Boys get to the point where they're overwhelmed by emotion and they can't handle it Dan Kindlon studies why boys commit violent acts parents should use the focus now being placed on stemming school violence as an opportunity to ment change He said he has seen boys who have begun to travel the path that led the two shooters at Columbine High to violence But in sessions where the boys were taught to dis- sect their emotions and explain how they felt they became comfortable with society again he 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