Raising Fine Young Men - 'A Better Man'

Real man, fine young man, good guy... these are all terms that hold serious weight in my family. Now that I have 2 boys of my own, these terms are coming home to roost. C-SPAN Book Channel has shared an interview(I can't remember what you call this type of format) which includes the author of 'A Better Man:True American Heroes Speak to Young Men on Love, Power, Pride, and What it Means to Be a Man' and includes in the panel some of the contributors to the book.
*** We are interrupted by this excellent joke from my eldest, Jack, "what kind of vegetable do you get when a dinosaur stomps on it?" ... "Squash!" ****** Don't you love inocence?
I am reminded of a book I recently loaned to a new friend with 3 boys of her own, 5/3/4mo. 'Boy's Adrift' If there is one thing that I do not appreciate from the women's liberation movement, it is the idea that men and women are the same and equal in their make-up. Boy's are unusual, special creatures, created by God as they are meant to be. They are sadly over-medicated and regularly over-dosed on that which would sub-due them, when they are wonderful, just as they are. Yes, an exausted mother just said this. But I refuse to buy into the ideas that so rampantly run our streets.

Something to think about. Motivation for being proactive, not reactive.