CRYING! Blogged by xmadameking.blogspot.com *Boys don’t cry; crying is for girls. The little boy wipes his face and does his best to stop crying. The first time a young boy gets yelled at for doing what is 100% natural for him to do, he starts an all too familiar process of learning how to suppress his hurts. Whether it is a physical pain or an emotional pain, he has to find a way to deal with it without crying because “Boys don’t cry.” From that moment on he loses his God given release mechanism and without being able to release what’s troubling him, it gets bottled up for years to come. How do you think that will look when it erupts?

I understand the intentions behind this whole ordeal but what if it’s doing more harm than good? Yes we want our boys to grow into men that will protect themselves and their family and not ball up in a corner and cry. Yes we want our boys to grow into men that do not cry every time someone says something that may hurt their feelings.  No we do not want our boys to grow to become women instead of men but do you really think that just because a young boy who is hurt cries that he will become a woman? That type of thinking is completely false and ignorant to the adverse effects of not crying.

Bare with me as I talk about the eye and tears for a moment. Every human being’s eyes aside from those with Dry Eye produce tears. The eye has a need to be lubricated so it produces tears that are spread to the entire eye every time you blink. Not only do the tears lubricate the eye but they are a defensive mechanism to protect the eye in case anything gets into it. This is why if anything ever flies into your eye you immediately tear up. It’s not because of pain or emotion, tears are how your eye fights.