Raising Real Men

This week’s episode from Hero Tales is the remarkable story of how George Rogers Clark and a few dozen backwoodsmen captured the Northwest Territory from the British during the Revolutionary War.  Theodore Roosevelt relates how Clark led his men through the icy floodwaters of the Wabash River to surprise the British outpost of Vincennes, among [...]

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One of my favorite Founders is George Washington. There’s a whole mythology that sprung up around him, sure, but the reality is just as fascinating and more edifying. Two excellent biographies I’ve enjoyed are Joseph P. Ellis’ His Excellency, George Washington and Richard Brookhiser’s Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington.  He really was a man of strong [...]

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Introduction Hal and Melanie Young have six sons and two daughters—the six boys came first. Their children range from 2 years old to out of high school. They speak on parenting, educating your children and family policy issues among other subjects. You can read more about their ministry at RaisingRealMen.com. Summary Divided into two parts, [...]

The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports that the last surviving German machine gun captured by Sgt. Alvin York in World War I has been discovered in the attic of a Massachusetts public library. …York pulled off one of the great feats of any combat soldier of any time. He single-handedly annihilated a German machine gun battalion on Oct. [...]

This morning in family devotions we were talking about the love of God for His people. Explaining it to our five year old, I said, “Do you know how much your Daddy loves you?” “Oh yes!” she replied. “Does your Daddy take care of you and keep you safe?” She heartily agreed. “Well, God loves [...]

The husband of an aid worker in Haiti drove a hundred miles in answer to his wife’s call for help, then dug her out from underneath a foot of concrete rubble.  The Associated Press story is here. One does wonder where the men in the neighborhood were.  A hundred mile drive in Haiti isn’t like I-95 [...]

After our eldest, John Calvin, read his dad’s Ten Moments in Manhood list, he sent us a link to an incredible YouTube video. In this 3D animation of Captain Sullenberger’s Hudson landing, you can see it all happen up close. What I found most fascinating was listening to the actual audio while being able to [...]

How do you raise boys? This question often comes up in homeschooling circles. We have plenty of resources to raise our daughters – home economic kits, great fiction, aprons, and homemaking magazines. However, there are few serious tools to help parents in the herculean task of training sons. Until now…………… Hal and Melanie Young have [...]

As a mom to three active boys, I’m always eager to read what others have to say about raising boys to be men.  What better people to take advice from than Hal and Melanie Young, parents to 6 boys (and 2 girls).  In their book, Raising Real Men, they discuss the intricacies of bringing up [...]