What about Boy Scouts or a male relative? My dad was a raunchy role model but my uncle was there and was a great role model.
Oh come on, my girls love to take things apart and my boys know how to respect their elders and their sisters. I think people just need to leave kids alone and let them be themselves, and not worry about making natural human aggression something forbidden or just for boys or girls.
All my kids/nieces/nephews have the same rules: don't hit your littler sibling (and they all break this rule equally!), be clean (and they all break this rule equally too!), stand up for yourself (when a boy on the playground lifted my little girl's skirt, you can bet he was sorry, to the tune of a black eye) and be kind. Yes, I'm probably a little harder on the boys about fighting because I think it's easy to please your friends and be a bully, and I'm harder on the girls about teasing because it's easy to please your friends and be nasty. Thank goodness sex hasn't really come up yet, but my advice for all of them will be the same: wait until marriage!
I want all my kids to be strong and smart and good people, fulfilling God's wishes for them!
No relatives around we're in California, and they are in Texas.
We did Cub Scouts for awhile, but his den got disbanded.
I think I'll get him in Boy Scouts when he's in middle school (next year).
He's not like my brothers. He's more like my husband. Neither of them like sports. They are into computers.