14– A Real Man works like the ant
Sign #14 A Real Man is like the ant who labors hard all summer gathering food in building shelter to keep it warm, full, and live throughout the winter months, while the grasshopper sit on the blades of grass, chirps away his time, and eats all of the food that’s available for it immediately; saving nothing for “hard times”. A Real Man knows that the ant in the old fable is wise and smart, while the grasshopper is shortsighted, lazy, greedy, and impulsive. So he endeavors to be like the ant.
Symptom #14 Chronic Adolescents are shortsighted like the grasshopper. They are too preoccupied with the present, and obsessed with their fears and defense mechanisms to be concerned about tomorrow. They live in the …show more content…
He is his father, nothing more or nothing less. He is a Real father. He somehow knows that perhaps the essence of manhood is fatherhood. I did not become a real man until I became a real father. He does not patronize his son. He does not attempt to be his “best friend” or peer. He takes his role as father very seriously and he realizes that “if you play with a puppy he will eventually bite you”. – Unknown –. A Real Man knows that he has a responsibility to be a role model for his son; that he needs to be a mentor for his son and that he must model the behavior that he wishes to teach him. He recognizes that children listen to your behavior much more than your words. A real man knows that he is not his sons peer or equal, and that his son must make a successful transition from boyhood, or adolescence, to a fully responsible adult man; capable of making his own healthy life choices, and taking on his own responsibilities as he embraces manhood.
Symptom #15 Chronic Adolescents firstly, do not understand manhood because they have never psychologically made that transition themselves. He behaves like an adolescent and, since people can only work with what they have, he cannot teach a boy to be what he himself has never become. So he teaches his son what he knows; which means that he usually teaches his son that manhood is identified by things like how many women you can “handle” and manipulate into bed, or …show more content…
In other words, no matter how many baskets he can make on a basketball court, no matter how many touchdowns he can run the football field, no matter how many men he can knock out in a boxing ring, no matter how many degrees he can earn college or university, no matter how much money he has the bank, no matter how many women he can manipulate into bed, no matter how strong he is, or how well he sing a song or give a speech, if he has at least one child in this world and is not present financially, emotionally, spiritually, and physically in that child’s life from birth (the delivery room if possible) to adulthood, he can never seriously or legitimately consider himself a Real Man, or a MAN at
Sign #14 A Real Man is like the ant who labors hard all summer gathering food in building shelter to keep it warm, full, and live throughout the winter months, while the grasshopper sit on the blades of grass, chirps away his time, and eats all of the food that’s available for it immediately; saving nothing for “hard times”. A Real Man knows that the ant in the old fable is wise and smart, while the grasshopper is shortsighted, lazy, greedy, and impulsive. So he endeavors to be like the ant.
Symptom #14 Chronic Adolescents are shortsighted like the grasshopper. They are too preoccupied with the present, and obsessed with their fears and defense mechanisms to be concerned about tomorrow. They live in the …show more content…
He is his father, nothing more or nothing less. He is a Real father. He somehow knows that perhaps the essence of manhood is fatherhood. I did not become a real man until I became a real father. He does not patronize his son. He does not attempt to be his “best friend” or peer. He takes his role as father very seriously and he realizes that “if you play with a puppy he will eventually bite you”. – Unknown –. A Real Man knows that he has a responsibility to be a role model for his son; that he needs to be a mentor for his son and that he must model the behavior that he wishes to teach him. He recognizes that children listen to your behavior much more than your words. A real man knows that he is not his sons peer or equal, and that his son must make a successful transition from boyhood, or adolescence, to a fully responsible adult man; capable of making his own healthy life choices, and taking on his own responsibilities as he embraces manhood.
Symptom #15 Chronic Adolescents firstly, do not understand manhood because they have never psychologically made that transition themselves. He behaves like an adolescent and, since people can only work with what they have, he cannot teach a boy to be what he himself has never become. So he teaches his son what he knows; which means that he usually teaches his son that manhood is identified by things like how many women you can “handle” and manipulate into bed, or …show more content…
In other words, no matter how many baskets he can make on a basketball court, no matter how many touchdowns he can run the football field, no matter how many men he can knock out in a boxing ring, no matter how many degrees he can earn college or university, no matter how much money he has the bank, no matter how many women he can manipulate into bed, no matter how strong he is, or how well he sing a song or give a speech, if he has at least one child in this world and is not present financially, emotionally, spiritually, and physically in that child’s life from birth (the delivery room if possible) to adulthood, he can never seriously or legitimately consider himself a Real Man, or a MAN at