Beer
Red Tool-box
14/02/10 17:03
Not being raised a very handy man in my childhood, I am conscious of the need to teach my own children the skills I have only acquired later in life. I have a need to pass on my handyman skills to my sons as part of raising them to be real men.
I was raised to be a 'nice' boy - quiet, polite, well behaved. But there is something burning within me that knows that quiet and polite have little place in the life of a man. I often tell my sons that I am raising them to be brave, strong men. Becoming men who are not afraid and who know who they are. I want to teach my own children how to make wooden toys, fix things around the house, grow their own food and enjoy being muddy and dirty as they do it. I want my two sons to be comfortable and... Read More...
I was raised to be a 'nice' boy - quiet, polite, well behaved. But there is something burning within me that knows that quiet and polite have little place in the life of a man. I often tell my sons that I am raising them to be brave, strong men. Becoming men who are not afraid and who know who they are. I want to teach my own children how to make wooden toys, fix things around the house, grow their own food and enjoy being muddy and dirty as they do it. I want my two sons to be comfortable and... Read More...
