This talk will focus on what our youngest boys need from us, boys in early childhood education, Head Start, boys birth to five. Parent engagement and outreach has become perhaps more important for our schools than ever before as our children and families come back from pandemic isolation. Children come to school with behavioral patterns that are problematic and schools need parental help with those. Parents, too, need the help of schools in guiding their children. In this talk, Lauren will share practical strategies and anecdotes from years of work in the Phoenix community – a how-to of what works and what does not work with engaging busy and distracted parents to help their sons, including parents whose native language is not English.