Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons

Mostly focused on how boys need to be taught self-control - control over their bodies, their emotions, their intellect.
As boys grow they face limits - toddlers realize that things are possible but they aren't coordinated
enough yet. So it is a process of growing into new powers and facing the limits of those powers.

The new powers are things like physical strength or intellect. The limitations help them confront and master their emotions. Self-control leads to perseverance, virtue, courage, integrity, etc.

Boys in nature for instance confront their relative powerlessness when confronted with nature's power - gravity posing danger, waiting out a forest fire or flood, etc. That facing of powerlessness can result in a humbling which leads to show more humility. show less