Thanks, I was hoping I was making myself understood.
You don't have to live your life over thru your kids' sports but you do have to be their life coach.
Not every minute they demand attention but when you are able you must let them know they matter.
I found this interesting:
http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/narth/fathers.html
I think one way to encourage your son to become a homosexual is to let him know that cutting the lawn is more important than sharing in his achievements.
If you want a healthy happy son, turn off the lawn mower when he gets home and give him a hug.
An excerpt from an interesting article follows:
FATHERS OF MALE HOMOSEXUALS:
A Collective Clinical Profile
by Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D.
It is widely agreed that many factors likely contribute to the formation of male homosexuality. One factor may be the predisposing biological influence of temperament (Byne and Parsons, l993). No scientific evidence, however, shows homosexuality to be directly inherited in the sense that eye color is inherited (Satinover, 1996).
Recent political pressure has resulted in a denial of the importance of the factor most strongly implicated by decades of previous clinical research--developmental factors, particularly the influence of parents. A review of the literature on male homosexuality reveals extensive reference to the prehomosexual boy's relational problems with both parents (West 1959, Socarides 1978, Evans 1969); among some researchers, the father-son relationship has been particularly implicated (Bieber et al 1962, Moberly 1983).
One psychoanalytic hypothesis for the connection between poor early father-son relationship and homosexuality is that during the critical gender-identity phase of development, the boy perceives the father as rejecting. As a result, he grows up failing to fully identify with his father and the masculinity he represents.