“Boys will be boys.”
I know this because I have two of them — and I’m still one at heart. Give me a cardboard tube, and it quickly becomes a sword or a lightsaber (complete with sound effects). My sons do the same. My daughter? Not so much.
Fatherhood matters — not just sentimentally, but statistically.
But beneath the innocent play and imaginary battles lies something deeper, something wired into the heart of every man: the call to provide and protect.
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It’s a calling that many men feel innately, but tragically, our culture has done all it can to distract from this responsibility and delay the transition to true manhood. Worse still, modern messaging often reshapes manhood into a version that previous generations wouldn’t even recognize: one of detachment,
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