Parenting in Today’s World

We don’t fit in as parents today.

In general parents today let their kids float.

Through life.
Through school.
Through everything.

I stink at that.

My kids don’t float. They work.

Things We Fail at in Parenting.

Letting boys be boys.
I have five of them. Trust me, they do not need help being boys. They need help being future men.

We are training up the future men of this world, and we take that seriously. Our boys are clean, clean cut, and hard working… Whether they like it or not.

Letting boys sit around all day.
My “Mommy Sense” (similar to Spider-Man’s ‘Spidey Sense’) kicks into overdrive when I see my boys sitting on the sofa during the day.
I immediately start asking, did you do this, did you do that?
Sorry. Boys should not sit unless they are on the toilet.

Letting my boys have their own style of dress and hair.
Future men worthy of serving God, loving their wives, running their businesses, etc should be others centered.

If they wear their hair and clothes in a way that makes “grandma” to feel uncomfortable and cross the street to avoid contact with them. Not acceptable.

While I’m all for freedom of expression, my boys express themselves in a boring way physically and that will give them an edge. 

Expecting teenage years to be Easy.
We expect the teenage years to be hard because we will make them hard.

• Hard to disrespect us,.
• Hard to disobey the house rules
• Hard to live in our house and break our rules,
• hard to break things like curfews,
• Hard to be a glutton.

Yep. Teenage Years will be hard.

Moms and dads, if you have boys join us at stinking to raise them to be wimpy, lazy, self centered men.

If you have little girls, stink at raising them to be focused on selfies, self, make-up, and sexuality.

We need to stink at parenting “today” and excel at parenting for tomorrow.

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