{"quotes":[{"text":"So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["adolescence","adulthood","boy","boyhood","coming-of-age","crossroads","deception","growing-up","illusion","lies","maturation","rite-of-passage","summer","teen","teenager"],"id":22418,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn’t matter what he does.","author":"Clayton Lessor MA","tags":["boy","childhood","discipline","family","father","fatherhood","growing-up","mentor","mother","motherhood","parent","parenthood","parenting","personal-responsibility","rite-of-passage","role-model","sense-of-belonging","son","teenager"],"id":37113,"author_id":"Clayton+Lessor+MA"},{"text":"It’s time to stop dreaming about who you want your son to be and help him become the healthy, happy, and successful man he’s supposed to be.","author":"Clayton Lessor MA","tags":["boy","childhood","discipline","family","father","fatherhood","growing-up","mentor","mother","motherhood","parent","parenthood","parenting","personal-responsibility","rite-of-passage","role-model","sense-of-belonging","son","teenager"],"id":41429,"author_id":"Clayton+Lessor+MA"},{"text":"Healing, it turns out, is a journey. It doesn’t happen all at once.","author":"Clayton Lessor MA","tags":["boy","childhood","discipline","family","father","fatherhood","growing-up","mentor","mother","motherhood","parent","parenthood","parenting","personal-responsibility","rite-of-passage","role-model","sense-of-belonging","son","teenager"],"id":174212,"author_id":"Clayton+Lessor+MA"},{"text":"Healthy boys grow into healthy men.","author":"Clayton Lessor MA","tags":["boy","childhood","discipline","family","father","fatherhood","growing-up","mentor","mother","motherhood","parent","parenthood","parenting","personal-responsibility","rite-of-passage","role-model","sense-of-belonging","son","teenager"],"id":222536,"author_id":"Clayton+Lessor+MA"},{"text":"According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.","author":"Clayton Lessor MA","tags":["boy","childhood","discipline","family","father","fatherhood","growing-up","mentor","mother","motherhood","parent","parenthood","parenting","personal-responsibility","rite-of-passage","role-model","sense-of-belonging","son","teenager"],"id":250121,"author_id":"Clayton+Lessor+MA"},{"text":"There’s a wound most troubled boys share, which, at its core, comes from the feeling that they don’t have their father’s unconditional love.","author":"Clayton Lessor MA","tags":["boy","childhood","discipline","family","father","fatherhood","growing-up","mentor","mother","motherhood","parent","parenthood","parenting","personal-responsibility","rite-of-passage","role-model","sense-of-belonging","son","teenager"],"id":270156,"author_id":"Clayton+Lessor+MA"},{"text":"Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.","author":"Clayton Lessor MA","tags":["boy","childhood","discipline","family","father","fatherhood","growing-up","mentor","mother","motherhood","parent","parenthood","parenting","personal-responsibility","rite-of-passage","role-model","sense-of-belonging","son","teenager"],"id":271878,"author_id":"Clayton+Lessor+MA"},{"text":"Despite what you might believe right now, your son’s future is bright. You only need the right tools to help him get there.","author":"Clayton Lessor MA","tags":["boy","childhood","discipline","family","father","fatherhood","growing-up","mentor","mother","motherhood","parent","parenthood","parenting","personal-responsibility","rite-of-passage","role-model","sense-of-belonging","son","teenager"],"id":320690,"author_id":"Clayton+Lessor+MA"},{"text":"Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.","author":"Margaret A. Edwards","tags":["censor","censoring","censors","censorship","freedom-of-choice","freedom-of-expression","freedom-of-speech","freedom-of-thought","freedom-to-express","love","love-story","lover","lovers","lovers-fictional","minors-rights","rite-of-passage","rites-of-passage","teen","teen-fantasy","teen-fiction","teenage-love","teenagers","teenagers-and-parents","teens","young-adult","young-adult-fantasy","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-literature","young-adult-novels","young-adult-readers","young-adult-romance","young-adult-urban-fantasy","young-love","young-lovers"],"id":363206,"author_id":"Margaret+A.+Edwards"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}