Former US President Barack Obama joined Michelle’s wife and brother -in -law Craig Robinson in a recent episode of the “IMO” podcast, who shares knowledge about the education of emotionally intelligent boys and building communities for the next generation.
Podcast posted the question of the new mother of an annual son and asked how to raise emotionally competent men in a world that focuses strongly on the authorization of girls. “What can we do to change the fact that we raise our girls and love our boys?” She asked.
In response, Barack Obama offered sincere reflections on the education of boys to recognize and resist the worrying online ideologies, and emphasize the importance of wider male patterns.
Obama: boys need more than just one male pattern
Obama remembered his university days and attributed a homosexual professor as an influential figure in his development.
“In college I had a homosexual professor who became one of my favorite professors,” he said. “He was a great person and would call me when I started saying things they didn’t know. You need to show empathy and kindness.”
The former president stressed that the boys need to see different expressions of masculinity.
“This is one of the things I think many times need – not just exposure to one guy, one father, no matter how good dad is. It can’t be everything,” Obama said.
“You need that person in your group of friends”
Obama argued that having friends LGBTQ helps men to become a better father and models of patterns by promoting empathy and inclusion.
“You need that person in a group of friends, so if you have a boy who is gay or non-binary or anything, they have someone they can do,” I am not alone in it, “I think it creates this community. I know it’s rough, but that’s what they need. “
Criticism of progressive messages on boys
While he praised the efforts to increase girls, Obama criticized the progressivists for overlooking the boys.
“I will tell how progressive, democrats, progressive parents, enlightenment, we have made this mistake in terms of our rhetoric,” he said. “We are constantly talking about what is happening to the boys, instead of what is right with them. And that was a mistake.”
He added that people are beginning to recognize this imbalance.
“Many ways to be a man”
Obama was also thinking about developing thoughts of masculinity and noticing a positive change among younger men while warning of leaving all traditional values.
They promise that young men are beginning to realize that there are many different ways to be a good, strong, successful and happy man, he said.
Yet he laughed that “some good things from the old models, like knightly, we just fired.
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