It’s always been a challenging task, helping teenage boys develop into well-rounded young men — the new trend of social media-fueled “digital masculinity” is complicating that transition even more.

“The adolescent years are a period where you are trying to get a good sense of self,” said Dr. Mutsa Nyakabau, a pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente, in Ashburn, Virginia. “Digital masculinity is this trend that’s gradually becoming more pervasive, in which young, teenage boys are having this social education on how to be young men, based on the content they are consuming.”

A recent survey by Common Sense Media showed three in four boys age 11 to 17 regularly encounter masculinity-related posts about “building muscle, making money, fighting, dating and relationships, or weapons.”

“The idea of

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