Over the next several weeks, I will be exploring the 6 man-categories I've identified to be part of my 12 year old son's "Man Year." At Restoration Project, we believe that boys are born, but men are made. Here is what I'm doing to make a man out of my so ...
It is through the deep waters of danger and risk that masculinity is tried and proven. We have these friends who live on a few acres on the edge of wilderness in Wyoming. From their kitchen window, you can see the peaks of the Snowy Range that loom lik ...
There is something about the company of men that every boy needs to know, feel and experience. In my children's elementary school, there is one male teacher. One. I myself can only remember ever having one male teacher prior to middle school -- Mr. Mic ...
"I just don't feel like a man. I think I might be, but I'll never really know for sure, because no one ever told me I was." Sitting there in front of me, in probably the most vulnerable moment of his life, Colton (name changed) wept. To admit his own ...
She rode off with her friends and didn't come back. After dinner, the older kids asked if they could go out and ride bikes with the neighbor kids. I have been thrilled that so many children live within such close proximity to us. On any given day, ther ...
In every good story there is a villan because there is a villan in everyone's story. I wish I could say that my children despise television and that they find innumerable ways to play nicely together for hours upon hours. But alas, this is not the cas ...
