Saturday Morning Thought Starters

Flipping through the (on time today, by the way) Dallas Morning News and found some fuel to engage the pilot light of my brain today:

From Mary Jacobs' column on raising boys and the current trend of "male bashing":

Quoting Michael Gurian: "If Huck and Tom were alive today, they'd probably be diagnosed with a conduct disorder and put on Ritalin." [According to a study, 80% of the children on Ritalin in elementary school are boys]

"But first we have to be clear that maleness isn't a pathology that needs to be medicated, and the testosterone isn't a poison that fuels all the world's ills. We need to love our boys in all their boyness, not in spite of it."