8 Things to Teach your Son about True Manhood:
1. Being a gentleman is still worth the effort.
Hold the door. Stand up when a woman leaves or joins the table.
Go get the car when it’s raining. Offer your hand.
2. Take responsibility.
Takes responsibility for your actions, choices, values, and beliefs.
And – while taking responsibility, manhood is also willing to admit – with grace – when it is wrong.
3. Don’t be afraid to be vulnerable.
Real strength allows other people in. Manhood is honest about feelings and not afraid to be known.
True manhood never builds a wall where there should be a window or a fortress where there should be a sanctuary.
4. Actually “being” a man is more important than “talking” like one.
Real men don’t just stand up and speak up – they “put up” too. Loud talk and tough posturing don’t cut it.
True manhood involves finding a need and doing something about it.
5. Listen respectfully, disagree politely and never exclude women from the conversation.
True manhood is inclusive. It may be strong, but it’s unfailingly polite.
Men who equate bluster or machismo with strength are typically covering something up.
6. Love is stronger than muscles.
True manhood understands that brute force is less compelling than self-giving love.
The best solutions to difficulties involved applied love.
7. The first shall be the last.
True manhood puts others first.
God is quoted more than once as saying something like this: If you want to be a leader, then the place to be is on your knees, with a towel in your hand, washing someone’s feet.
8. True manhood is more about giving than about getting.
Our culture often touts a “men see what they want, then they go out and get it” view of manhood.
But true manhood is more along the lines of “see what the world needs, then go out and do it.”
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