Dear Dr. Ray, I try hard to keep my kids innocent and to raise them more slowly than their peers. Regularly, I hear, You cant protect them forever. Thats a real world out there. They have to learn to deal with life. - Cautious Mom
Let's approach this question by first examining a man's masculinity, the distinctive character of any normal adult male.
What is striking today is the huge percentage of seriously troubled youths from normal families. It seems that in our society the distinction between normal and dysfunctional has blurred. Or, to put it another way, some sort of subtle dysfunction is corroding large numbers of typical, middle-class homes.
Here are some key ideas to keep in mind all based on other parents' experience in leading your adolescent children toward responsible adulthood.
At Rugby and then at Cambridge and Oxford, at American preparatory schools and then at Yale and Harvard, education meant gentlemanly formation.
Parents should make a conscientious and sustained effort to teach their children good table manners.
The more I give my children the reasons behind my decisions, the more they argue and ask "why" about everything. Should I continue giving them my reasons?
Dr. Gianna Molla lived in the heart of the 20th century as a woman who had it all. The future of the 21st century will depend in large part on whether the understanding of marriage and family life she exemplified will be seen as a model to be imitated or a constraint to be overcome.
I called him August 1st of last summer to say good-bye. It was a call I'd put off for weeks, voicing what three unsent letters wanted to convey. How can one say a final earthly goodbye to a good friend, a former teacher, a magnificent priest, now dying of cancer?
The real mission for parents is to raise their children toward responsible adulthood. No challenge is more important than this, and so great parents emerge in family life as real leaders. How do fathers and mothers lead their children effectively? To form a picture of parental leadership, let's look at the characteristics of leaders and see how parents fit the profile of leadership in family life.
