Q. I’m freaking out. AprilĢƵ coming, I’m nervous about PSSA tests. I hate them. They’re long. You can’t study for them, not really. And everything – I mean everything – rides on them. I want to go to college. My mom always tells me how proud she is of me. She didn’t get to go to ...
AuthorĢƵ note: This column is a followup to last weekĢƵ Ask Mary Jo, where a father brought to my attention the toxic masculinity environment on some video gaming sites. After speaking with teens in our programs and at our Common Ground Teen Center, I concluded more research into the topic ...
Q. Mary Jo, if you could hear some of the vile and mean things the teenage boys (and men) say to our 15-year-old daughter on the video-gaming discords, you'd wonder where these boys' moms and dads are. If a woman dares to enter their gaming space, and actually beats them, it's an unusual day ...