If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It depends entirely on what stage your son is in when you ask the question.
That’s the message of John Eldredge’s The Way of the Wild Heart: A Map for the Masculine Journey. (See my first post on it […]
A follow up to this post.
I got some great advice from Amy, who suggested that I talk to Boy 13 about the problem from a position of empathy rather than one of attack.
He got back from camp on Friday, and I procrastinated for as long as I could, finally buckling on Sunday morning. We […]
That’s the thesis of my latest read, John Eldredge’s The Way of the Wild Heart.
You see, what we have now is a world of uninitiated men. Partial men. Boys, mostly, walking around in men’s bodies, with men’s jobs and families, finances, and responsibilities. The passing on of masculinity was never completed, if it was […]
Which would normally be an easy thing to deal with. Restrict movement, Ibuprofen.
Except “He” and “His” refer to different boys, and that makes it a much bigger problem.
Boy 13 broke the collarbone of his 6-year-old cousin. It might have been intentional.
I was with the extended in laws family about two months ago. We were […]
I’ve been listening over and over (obsessively, some might say) to the Disney Tarzan soundtrack. The music is good, but the thing that keeps me listening is that I can feel some thoughts trying to break out and the songs seem to help, like an egg tooth.
This song, in particular. Click the Play button […]
Artwork by Boy 7. I was wearing my Ninja suit that day.-->
