On this still Saturday night I got a few blocks pieced together, listened to some country, and am ending with a chapter of another Meeker must. Boys Should Be Boys is the answer to all those pressing questions about raising a son today. She discusses the devaluation of masculinity, noxious pop culture and the divorce of children from their parents today. And then she goes further... she tells us how to turn it around, how to get boys back to the forest, and dirty and running and jumping, and just growing up happy and healthy. Ditch the ipads, video games, computers, the hyper-scheduling of extracurriculars, and just be together. The more time spent engaged in activities apart from parents, the worse off they are. This is demonstrated in the astronomical increase in ADHD and other learning disabilities among boys. Go fishing, read aloud, chop wood, paint a fence, whatever, just do it together, because our boys need it. Oh and one more thing, they need a father. More than anything in this world, they need a man to lead them from infancy to adulthood, and to set an example of how to be a strong, caring man who is in touch with himself and with his world. A son is his father's apprentice.
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