Raising Real Men

Christmas had always been a special time in both our families growing up, our mothers made many of the ornaments on our tree, we had certain foods that were always served, certain activities the family always did. Our first Christmas together after our marriage found us over a thousand miles away from our childhood homes [...]

Thanksgiving at our house finds us gathered around the table with five kernels of corn alone on each plate. A child rises and reads the poem, Five Kernels of Corn. We pray and thank the Lord for his bountiful provision for us. As we pile into the feast, the topic of conversation is the blessings [...]

“Should we have a Black Friday or Internet Monday sale?” one of us asked. “Of course! Raising Real Men would make a great Christmas gift – encouragement you can wrap up as a gift – but let’s call it a Thanksgiving sale. We are so thankful for God’s gifts, this is a way we can [...]

I’m making plans about cooking for Thanksgiving and I wanted to share an absolutely awesome recipe with you. It is seriously the bee’s knees. It’s the bomb. It raises pumpkin pie to new level. And every one of the seven males in my house love it. You know what, I think I’ll serve it for [...]

Several years ago we found ourselves in November facing a job loss and relocation with no clear direction ahead. Things were looking pretty grim for the holidays. Now how were we going to give thanks in all things, like the apostle Paul said to do? How could we model this for our young sons? Somewhere [...]

Raising Real Men…….Surviving, Teaching, and Appreciating Boys Written by Hal and Melanie Young I had pre-ordered this book and was so very excited to receive it in the mail last week. And I thought it was really cool that the authors signed the book! I just finished it today and can say that I LOVED [...]

I was shocked this morning to read in the paper that a school in our area had a new fundraising plan, guaranteed to raise more money than selling candy bars. For a $20 donation,  students could get 10 extra points on any two tests of their choice. Yes, you read that right, the school was [...]

A couple of weeks ago, during the Homeschool Football League playoffs, something happened that reminded me of the value of team sports and team projects: During one of the hottest games for their team, a running play to the right was called. The team’s star running back started off to the right sideline, but when [...]

The November/December Home School Enrichment features an article, “Who’s His Hero?”, condensed from the book, Raising Real Men. The article starts on page 40 of the current issue. //

God created man male and female, people who are sexually differentiated. Our culture has spent the past thirty years in denial of that reality, thus, Hal and Melanie Young’s Raising Real Men is long overdue. This book manages to be a bold corrective to the feminization of boys and men in our culture, without simply [...]