Posted on 09/02/2007 8:48:44 PM PDT by monomaniac
this is why Boy Scouts of AMerica exists. BOYS NEED IT.
There is irony in that these “indoor” boys need to read a book about things that should come as second nature to them, or at the very least be passed down to them. Where are their fathers? The very existance of this book suggest a failure by fathers to teach their sons (and daughters) basic skills. Are there any real men around or are they all metrosexuals who can’t even change a flat tire for fear of getting their hands dirty?
When I was a kid, what “toys” I had, didn’t need to be “turned on.” To keep me in the house would have required ropes. An ad hoc game of baseball was a near as the next street. To read was the “rainy day” solution to every “I don’t got nuthin to do!” It infuriates me, no end, to know that there are children right here on my own street are being held captive by Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Apple, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile.
We moved here to our present home in July of 2002. It was a really quiet neighborhood. I assumed there were no children within a 2 block area of my home, even though we live right across the street from an elementary school, with open playground and field area.
Then in 2004 we had hurricane Ivan. Power was off for a week or more here in our neighborhood. All of a sudden the streets were full of chubby children of all ages! Everywhere we saw kids riding bikes and playing over at the schoolyard! The whole neighborhood was alive with the sounds of laughter and screams of the joy of effervescent life! Then the power was returned al all was quiet in the ‘hood once more...........
Maybe they see their sons one weekend a month now that Mom took a fancy to Pablo the Pool Guy.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or maybe the fathers just walked out.
BTTT!!!!!!!!
this article is frightening. really.
I’ve made comments on other threads about this very same subject, how we are making 90 pound weaklings, both physically and psychologically, of boys in our society. The feminization of manhood, and it ain’t pretty. Some more of the adverse affects on our society of “women’s lib”. This has got to stop, and one way to stop it is to have more of our adult men stand up for themselves, get into the political arena, take jobs that are traditionally held by wimp liberal men and feminazi women, which allow this feminization to continue. This includes teaching positions,lawyers and judges, and in the MSM, so that we can fight fire with fire. We have ceded too much territory in areas of power, such as in the courts, to the liberals, and have thus allowed the downhill slide of our social mores and our very civilization to occur.
Conservatives have got to fight back or we lose our very way of living, will become a third world country, and will not have the means to defend against this occurring. It’s time for our men (what’s left of them) to stand up and fight for the intangibles that make the U.S. what it always was, even if the fight shifts from the physical arena to the political, cultural, legal, and learning institutions. We must fight on all fronts, to save our way of life.
I wouldn't change a minute. I had a real childhood, very unlike the current extended feminist castration ritual.
This book is wonderful. We just bought it for my nine year old son. My husband is looking forward to sharing in the activities with him. Yes, he probably could have done these things without the book but it’s kind of a nice, handy reference!
The bully thing can be taken care of relatively easy (if the teachers would allow it), but the kidnapping and NAMBLA dangers are very real. All of which can be blamed on a bunch of limp wristed judges, who release these creeps to prey on our children. Along with the fact that their now importing creeps from Mexico to prey on our children. It's all a vicious cycle (circle), people have just adapted the way they raise their children to the situations they find themselves in. If the d@mn politicians, judges, and lawyers would act in a sane manner, some of these problems might disappear.
A good start would be to fire school administrators who ban the game of tag.
“A good start would be to fire school administrators who ban the game of tag.”
Sounds good to me. There are a lot of school administrators that should be fired and replaced by “real men”, not socialist utopians.
The book is teaching him how to play poker, build a go-cart from scratch, how to fold a paper glider so that it really flies, to makes a paper water bomb and much, much more. He has found his Holy Grail. Wedged in between the book’s black arts are spirited short essays on heroic battles, good manners and, yes, girls.
One of my favorite Calvin & Hobbs strips comes to mind, where Calvin is on the phone to the library to ask if they have books there that will tell him how to build bombs. Shocked, they tell him no. He wonders, "What good is the library, then?"
Maybe C&H strips should be included in a boy's book. My husband loves the one with Calvin flying an F-14 (or some such fighter jet) fighting off tyranusaurus rexes and other horrific dinosaurs. For a boy, that's got to be the ultimate!
Boy's books are nothing new. My husband has a superb boy's book from the early 1900s with incredible illustrations. There are instructions in this book for everything from making a winged sail for when you're ice skating, to "Taxidermy for Boys."
The only reason I avoided arrest is because it was 30+ years ago! The stuff I got caught for (let alone DIDN’T!) would I think be dealt with pretty severely to any kid today. And looking back, there are a couple things that I would take back, but all in all lots of good “boy things”.
At the corner drug store we’d buy those confetti poppers, go outside and have the popper inside the door with the string hanging outside - pull the string and run. (We were there every day buying stuff - mostly- so I guess they didn’t mind too much!?
Or buy their smoke “bombs” and lie in the ditch by the road and toss the smoke bombs in front of cars and laugh while staying hidden. (Glad no one ever had an accident).
Or the time some guy gave us a whack at a car with a sledge hammer for a quarter. We ended up giving him so much money he just let us have the hammer and go to it. But then the cops showed up (and where did that man go?) and said the car was registered to some lady! Luckily we were young enough that they just asked us a few questions and no problem! (4th grade or so).
I could go on and on.
In post 11, flaglady47 says:
It’s time for our men (what’s left of them) to stand up and fight for the intangibles that make the U.S. what it always was ...
Someday the men in our neighborhoods will vigilante-style take care of the problem created by limp-wristed judges. When the going gets tough and the fight is mortal, men -- and only men, not women, but men -- alone will save the day, as they always have.
Just because a male is a sissy doesn't mean he isn't a man. That's God's truth. And it's why I'm eternally optimistic with regard to boys and men.
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