Are Father's Necessary?

 A 5-minute video with the answer:

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: 

but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Ephesians 6

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Life With Sons: His First Date With New Girlfriend

This boy's in love! 

He waited to officially date L. G. so  as not to worry her Parents as she is younger than he. Vulnerable in many ways to yet another heartache, but moving forward in hope.  What can we Parents do but pray and encourage him?! Tomorrow is her birthday, by the way.

Son parked the Toyota SUV by a nearby public Lake -- back car trunk open and the area made very comfortable with blankets and pillows. They watched the sun set as they talked,  ate home-made baked bread stuffed with pepperoni; plus choice of fruits, crackers, nuts, juice, and water. 

Simple, inexpensive, fun, memorable -- the way it was meant to be ❤👫❤

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

19The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. (Proverbs 30 )

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Family: Raising Boys to be Men

Author, JM Barrie (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) and his infamous quote came to mind recently during the news of a lawsuit brought by parents against their deadbeat son.  Said son had been living, rent-free, for 8 years; and has the GALL to label himself a Conservative (politically), eeek!

JM Barrie quote

the goal

Tomato-head Kids

J M Barrie, author of Peter Pan

Peter Pan Syndrome

Where Are the Men?

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James Matthew Barrie & Peter Pan

Playwright, J M Barrie, was born on this day in the year 1860 A.D. He is best known for writing the play, Peter Pan, and for popularizing the name Wendy.

As is often the case in judging people we do not know personally, his written words speak volumes of his character (and not always in a positive way).

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James Matthew Barrie

A Guy at 60 vs 20







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This Male is Not Husband Material

Future November Elections brought this true story to mind: 

I know a young male (I couldn’t say man) who lives down the road and has never had a job that lasted more than a few days. He lives in a house that is falling down around him. Ten years from now, that lazy genius will still be waiting for his ship to come in, and the only thing out of the ordinary in his life that will happen is that the roof of his house will fall on him.

He once told me, “Well, I am going to go down there and ask for a job.”
“You could get there before they close,” I said.
“Well, I am afraid they would close before I got there and the trip would be wasted, so I think I will go tomorrow.”

I said to him, “If I were you, I would live under the bridge next to the plant where I could make it to work every day without fail. So that after two weeks I would have earned enough money to rent a cheap apartment within walking distance. Within a month, I would have enough saved to buy an old car, and within a year, I would have found a better job and have a car good enough to take me back and forth to a better job. And within two years, I would be purchasing a fixer-up home. And with the passing of three years, I would have sold the fixer-upper for a $100,000.00 profit and have purchased two more homes and be fixing them both up for resale. Within ten years, I would own ten houses and would be entirely self-employed and looking for bigger investments.” 

This type of male will blame the government and vote Democratic. No, he won’t vote at all. He will just talk about it, and talk, and plan bigger things, and wait until tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow is soon enough for that kind of a “male.” ~by Michael Pearl

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Raising boys: Like Father, Like Son

by Michael Pearl :  The other day, I was downtown, which in our neck of the woods means two blocks of stores on the highway and half of them empty. I had gassed up at one of the two stations and I was about to get into my car when I noticed a duo emerge from the store.

I had to stop and stare at the beautiful humor. Father and ten-year-old son were so identical you could have matched them up out of a thousand daddies and a thousand sons. They sported the same pointed noses and rounded chins. Their blushed cheeks and tall foreheads were perfect copies. Their dark, narrow eyes finished out their common genetic display. They even walked the same, each carrying a Coke and some snack. Their dirty, work-worn pants sagged beneath their bellies in the same manner, and the only difference between their rounded shoulders was proportion—a two hundred pounder and a seventy-five pounder. I wondered how the boy escaped getting any traits from his mother. He looked like a clone of his dad.


As I stood there smiling, I remembered the many good times I shared with my young sons—and daughters—all the stores we entered, rides in old pickup trucks, chores performed together, helping me on the job, going fishing or hunting, or just stopping at a pawn shop to browse.

And then the bell started ringing again, the bell in my head that goes off when I see an example of what is missing in families today. That little ‘cloned’ ten-year-old was emotionally as sturdy as a cedar fence post. I could see relaxed contentment written all over him. He was not a troublesome kid who did things to get attention; he was a little man with responsibility. He respected his daddy and his daddy respected him. They were a team, something even a mother could never understand or share.

Fathers, there is no substitute for time spent with your sons. Boys do not want to sit in front of you and have serious talks. They will scratch you off like a chigger bite. Boys will talk when all eyes are focused on the yellow and white lines on the highway. They will talk when they have a splitting maul in their hands and you are stacking the fire wood they split. Words about duty and doing the right thing and being responsible mean little compared to the example you manifest day after day and year after year. Some of these old country fathers never knowingly try to teach their boys anything, but they manage to duplicate their own character and personality in their sons by means of fellowship.

I say it again:

“More is caught than taught.”

“Like father, like son.”

“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”

Life begets life. Living begets living. Righteousness and peace beget righteousness and peace.

The greatest privilege and opportunity this life affords a man is a second, third, fourth, fifth chance (depending on how many kids you have) to mold a man fit for the kingdom of God. Our personal mistakes and shortcomings can be corrected in our sons. We can give God a better childhood, youth, and manhood than our own. We make an indelible contribution to eternity. What an incredible responsibility!


I love the Pearl's ministry to Christian families
through  "No Greater Joy Ministries".  They've
taught me a lot on how to be a better wife and Mom.

From: Article: Like Father, Like Son - No Greater Joy Ministries

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