Give him a little time and guidance...
...a chance to succeed...
...opportunity to build strength and endurance...
...a new project to challenge and inspire..."Anybody knew that no two men were alike. You could measure cloth with a yardstick, or distance by miles, but you could not lump men together and measure them by any rule. Brains and character did not depend on anything but the man himself. Some men did not have the sense at sixty that some had at sixteen. And Almanzo considered that he was as good, any day, as any man twenty-one years old.
Almanzo's father thought so too. (His) father had put his boys to work early and trained them well. Almanzo had learned to save money before he was ten and he had been doing a man's work on the farm since he was nine..." ~Laura Ingalls Wilder in "The Long Winter"
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I love the excerpt from The Long Winter. This topic is dear to my heart since I only have sons right now and feel so unprepared at times to teach and guide them in to what they should be. I like how in this excerpt the father is mentioned. Just seeing my own little guys with their dad shows me how much they are influenced by him and what he tells them and how he acts around them.
Dearest Mrs. Regan,
This is a very encouraging post! As a homeschooling mother of two boys ~ one soon to be 15yrs old and the other soon to be 12yrs old ~ they are always with me.
I catch myself from giving them work that I know will hinder the teachings that my husband has started with them.
It is important that as mothers, we remember that boys need to be guided by our husbands. We can teach them to some extent ~ but the bulk of their learning does come from watching their example ~ the man of the house!
Thank you dear Mrs. Regan for sharing and for inspiring us mothers.
blessings to you are your beautiful family,
maria
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