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Because real men wear their babies, too.
Let me ask you - do you sometimes feel the need to force your kids into boxes?
(And I don’t mean cardboard ones to ship them to Timbuktu when they drive you bonkers)
I mean educational ones. Or developmental ones. Or keeping up with the jones’ ones. Whatever ones you feel the world around you imposing and pressuring you toward.
You don’t want what those people want...you don’t agree with their goals, their dynamics, or their style, yet you feel the drag of their current..their riptide.
It’s ok to want something different.
It’s ok to want to raise kids that are good and kind rather than feeling the need to sacrifice that on the alter of a cutthroat world for the sake of ‘toughening them up’.
It’s ok to raise your boys to be kind and to be good with babies and to know how to love on their little sisters. To know how to listen, how to comfort someone when they cry, how to be patient.
To lead with benevolence and compassion. To me THAT’S strength.
It’s hard to go against the grain, isn’t it? Anybody can be harsh, have a bad attitude, have an edge. And I’ve been guilty of that too. What’s hard is biting your tongue, choosing to be kind and careful with your words, and choosing to see the good.
So let’s teach them that. Because it’s something that needs to be taught. Its not gonna happen on its own.
And we should start with ourselves.
Because children learn what they live.
So let’s live a life of kindness.
So they will know kindness.
And will in turn live a life of kindness too.
Happy Monday ❤️
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