great article - agreed. The experiences I had working with older men, including my a 15 year business partnership with my Dad, were the most critical professional experiences in my life.
Katy, this is sooooooo good. Your words are so well crafted and so meaningfully impactful. I’ll be honest, I cried a little. Too often they’ve been lost and forgotten. Thank you for remembering our boys.
Your guidance reminds me of a few of Scott Galloway's books: Notes on Being a Man, The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning, and Adrift: America in 100 charts. It also reminds me of Mike Rowe, a television host and advocate known for promoting skilled trades and hands-on labor through his foundation, mikeroweWORKS, and the show Dirty Jobs.
As a parent, in addition to sports endeavors and academics, exposed our son to church and scout membership. Some scout troops have monthly camping, backpacking, and other excursions/practical learning activities in nature.
Katy, Excellent work here. Please keep shedding light on the proper trajectory of boys. You are making the world a better place for everyone. Thank you.
I totally agree with you and you express it so well. I have no kids of my own but I used to take some boys from a housing project to a park. I taught them how to climb trees safely, since they weren't allowed to do so at home. Also showed them how to skip stones on the water and they didn't want to go back home but just kept working their way down the river.
Also spent time with two young brothers who were in public school, private school, homeschool, and unschool. It was easy to see how these different types of schooling affected them. Their mother once took them to Wyoming to live and work on a ranch. So practical!
I myself grew up in the Philippines. I loved it there because of the abundance of nature and I was into it everyday.
Well written article! We're on the homeschooling path, and very thankful we don't need our son to sit in school. It's not designed for boys to succeed, and we're focused on getting our kids lots of sunlight. I've seen too many examples of teachers pushing parents to medicate their boys who have too much energy and have a hard time sitting still.
great article - agreed. The experiences I had working with older men, including my a 15 year business partnership with my Dad, were the most critical professional experiences in my life.
Katy, this is sooooooo good. Your words are so well crafted and so meaningfully impactful. I’ll be honest, I cried a little. Too often they’ve been lost and forgotten. Thank you for remembering our boys.
Thank you so much Don, so glad it resonated. Share widely!
Thank you for the post.
Your guidance reminds me of a few of Scott Galloway's books: Notes on Being a Man, The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning, and Adrift: America in 100 charts. It also reminds me of Mike Rowe, a television host and advocate known for promoting skilled trades and hands-on labor through his foundation, mikeroweWORKS, and the show Dirty Jobs.
As a parent, in addition to sports endeavors and academics, exposed our son to church and scout membership. Some scout troops have monthly camping, backpacking, and other excursions/practical learning activities in nature.
Yes 💯 to all those points!!!
Katy, Excellent work here. Please keep shedding light on the proper trajectory of boys. You are making the world a better place for everyone. Thank you.
Thanks so much Travis!!! Appreciate you.
This is awesome Katy!
Thank you so much Scott!!
As a homeschooling dad of two kids (although my wife is the teacher) I fully endorse your POV!
Amen, brother!!
I totally agree with you and you express it so well. I have no kids of my own but I used to take some boys from a housing project to a park. I taught them how to climb trees safely, since they weren't allowed to do so at home. Also showed them how to skip stones on the water and they didn't want to go back home but just kept working their way down the river.
Also spent time with two young brothers who were in public school, private school, homeschool, and unschool. It was easy to see how these different types of schooling affected them. Their mother once took them to Wyoming to live and work on a ranch. So practical!
I myself grew up in the Philippines. I loved it there because of the abundance of nature and I was into it everyday.
Yes, thank you for being such a role model for all these boys! We need more like you!
Well written article! We're on the homeschooling path, and very thankful we don't need our son to sit in school. It's not designed for boys to succeed, and we're focused on getting our kids lots of sunlight. I've seen too many examples of teachers pushing parents to medicate their boys who have too much energy and have a hard time sitting still.
💯 Pete! Thanks so much for reading.