Since my son Macallah was a toddler, I’ve been on a journey to teach him to recognize and embrace his emotions. When I read to him as a child, I’d point to the characters’ faces and ask him, “What emotion do you think they’re feeling?” Then I would ask him to mirror the same emotion on his face. And as a professor, author and speaker who has researched and written extensively about men’s emotional and mental health, I approached raising my son armed with two crucial insights.