My FIL...stiff upper lip! My dad? Quite the opposite. Have my teacher's hat on now and thinking of some students I taught. When we introduced De Bono's Six Thinking Hats...Blue Hat: organization and planning. Green Hat: creative thinking. Red Hat: feelings and instincts. Yellow Hat: benefits and values. Black Hat: risk assessment, in general the boys did just as well as the girls even in feelings and instincts. Bear in mind there was a lot of role playing in all of this, and a huge amount of open discussion. So in the future we could hope that this will pay off for boys.