This podcast features the first half of a lecture delivered by our headmaster on the topic of Raising Boys in an Age of Affluence. We live in one of the wealthiest cities, in the wealthiest country, in the wealthiest era in the history of the world. In general, there’s no place we’d rather be and we are blessed. There are however, certain predispositions that societal affluence can engender in our students and sons. There are also many things that we, as parents and teachers, can do to cultivate our sons into tough,...

Listen to part 2 of a lecture from Alvaro de Vicente on points for us to consider as we navigate through the challenges of raising boys in the current era.

Our headmaster begins a three episode series on iGen. In today’s episode, Mr. de Vicente explores the influences and forces that have overprotected, distracted, and unsettled our sons. In this episode, Mr. de Vicente references a previous episode on the Stressed Son and Teenage Anxiety.  Listen to this companion episode here. Click here for episode 2: The Impact on Our Sons Click here for episode 3: Strategies and Considerations for Parents Fully Aware

Mr. de Vicente continues his discussion of iGen, turning from the protecting, distracting, unsettling forces that have affected our sons to the impact of those forces on their character. Click here for episode 1.

Mr. de Vicente concludes this three part series on raising iGen. Given the forces and impact of our digital world and general culture, our headmaster presents considerations and strategies for parents seeking to accompany their sons on the path to Christian Manhood. Below is the recording from Mr. de Vicente’s follow-up webinar:

It is not on bread alone that man lives, but also on every word that he receives. And just as one’s diet shapes his bodily growth, so too does one’s verbal digest contribute to his interior development. Of course, not every sort of bodily growth is good; and, likewise, not every slogan that one receives is in itself spiritually salutary. In this week’s episode, Mr. Kyle Blackmer considers the ways in which phrases, lyrics, mantras, slogans—in a word, the words we hear repeatedly—shape the imagination, at times for good and,...