Pastor Douglas Wilson, author of Future Men (and one of our early reviewers!) talks about five aspects of masculinity in this video, "The Redneck's Last Words."
Raising Real Men will be officially released by Great Waters Press on January 29th. We're having a party to celebrate and you are invited! Every day from now until then, we'll have a giveaway - that's right, something everyone can have for free! - and a contest with fantastic resources and prizes provided by our…
Hey guys, some of you may be familiar with Jeff & Kate Estes of Hands and Hearts history kits and their awesome blog but we didn't meet them until last year when they reached out to help us deal with the financial aftermath of our little Katie's heart problem. Their love and good counsel was…
Here's a great essay from the journal First Things -- Sally Thomas' thoughts on boys, violence, and how to think about them: What I think I have come to understand about boys is that a desire to commit violence is not the same thing as a desire to commit evil. It’s a mistake for parents to presume…
Wow. A dramatic story from Haiti - a father of two, trapped and seriously injured in a collapsed building, kept calm, treated his own wounds, improvised solutions to immediate problems, then wrote bloodstained letters of Christian counsel to his sons. He was pulled from the wreckage after 65 hours. Writing the notes to his wife and children wasn’t…
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.…
I was given this book, Raising Real Men, by the authors Hal & Melanie Young in exchange for my honest review. As I have been reading this book, I have been so very encouraged to allow my boys to take risks and adventures and not be over "motherly" in protecting them. As I was reading…
In Charlotte this week, a long-time member of the Salvadoran MS-13 gang turned evidence against his former friends in federal court, saying he knew he risked being killed but did it because of his mother and brothers. According to the story in the Charlotte Observer, the 21-year-old said he had joined the gang as a young teen and took part…
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…
Hal & Melanie Young, authors of Raising Real Men, are the guests on Homeschooling with Heart, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine's Facebook discussion group, this week. We'd love to answer your questions, talk about your sons, discuss marriage and building family unity and more! Join us there today!