“Being a role model is the most important kind of educating.” —John Wooden In June 2025, shortly after the NBA Finals, journalists interviewed Vaughn Alexander, the father of Oklahoma City Thunder ...
Parents. Is this scenario familiar? You’re driving the kids home from school. As always, there’s plenty to do, plenty on your mind. Maybe you’re upset because your boss is making some stupid demand ...
Vincent Straub is supported by UKRI (HORIZON-MSCA-DN-2021 101073237) and the Leverhulme Trust (RC-2018-003). Joanna Nadin, Michael Joseph Richardson, Robert Walker, and Sarah Moore Fitzgerald do not ...
Children come into this world knowing nothing of its grandeur and different realities. As they develop, they inevitably look to role models to shape their vision of the world. The first of these are ...
Jobs working with children are largely done by women, leaving many boys, especially in low-income areas, with few men as role models. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series of ...
Boys will always have professional athletes and musicians to look up to, but as the New York Times’s Claire Cain Miller correctly notes, it is the adults that children “personally know” and see on a ...
New basketball partnership supports youth in Toronto's Neighbourhood Improvement Areas with access to positive role models and development of young basketball coaches. TORONTO--(BUSINESS ...