There are undoubted struggles you will go through in life; the support you receive in those moments will help determine your future functionality. One of the greatest lessons I learned as a father was acquiring the ability to empathize with myself. To look back at my childhood and ask what I needed in the time of these struggles. If I was not sincere with the…
In a previous post that I wrote for The Forge of Men, I explained about how you are raising the next “Nice Guy.” I explained how ineffective and abusive parenting methods cause us to raise a boy that becomes detached from his own needs to gain acceptance from his parents. He quickly learns that if he is good, people will like him, and the Nice…
Should we use power over our children? We must understand how the powers attributed to being a man and how that power is contained in our home. Most people quickly get outraged when cops abuse their power over citizens or when a big corporation mistreats an employee. We often fail to confront this imbalance in our own home, especially when it’s against our family’s smallest…
