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Sons are not extensions of their fathers but fathers are extensions, stages, platforms on which their sons might build & shape their lives.

Watch the dance as boys become men. Back is familiar & safe with less responsibilities. Forward is freedom but no experience with choices.

The most difficult action of parenting is inaction; causing your child to experience a painful truth that you could have prevented.

Teaching our children how to anticipate and accept the consequences of their choices is as important as teaching them how to make choices.

Children don’t become adults by giving them responsibilities they become adults by accepting responsibility, age has little to do with when.

Ours, are city boys; trains, buses and occasionly cabs are how they get about. What was an arch of passage is no longer a necessary skill.

It's always a difficult decision, when NOT to intervene. Sometimes a serial of bad choices don't become obvious until they become a habit.

It's always a difficult decision, when NOT to intervene. Sometimes a serial of bad choices don't become obvious until they become a habit

ENGLISH, in high school, stops being about what's correct and becomes about what you think. It's no wonder many math students get whiplash.

We need to remember, our CHILDREN are continuously & relentlessly becoming the people they are going to be whether we recognize it or not.

BOYS will never truly become MEN if they don’t acknowledge mistakes & make amends. FATHERS must be examples if the lesson is to be valued.

BOYS will never truly become MEN if they don’t acknowledge mistakes & make amends. FATHERS must be examples if the lesson is to be valued

BEING patient empathetic & understanding provides significantly less satisfaction than going a little CRAZY . . . if only for a few moments.

Parenting is a constant struggle between doing for your children or letting them learn how to do for themselves, no matter how old they get.

With SEX out of the equation, how boys are taught to treat the girls & women in their families is how they will treat girl friends & wives.

What does every other high school student do at 2:37am WITHOUT their own art department on stand by . . . or watching Jon Stewart on TiVo?

Boys become men making conscious choices. By helping them fulling appreciate why they chose this over that, they will learn what to do next.

Advising 16 year old boys is like providing driving directions from back of a crowded bus – you're not sure he hears you or is ignoring you.