There is nothing more powerful than a mother?s love. A mother?s love is like a blanket of protection. It represents security and warmth. When a child is born he or she tends to bond with the nurturing parent, in most cases the mother. By nature women are nurturers and comforters. When a woman has a male child it is her responsibility to instill love, compassion and conscientiousness. Conscientiousness, now that is a word that is rarely spoken or used. Conscientiousness is the trait of being careful or acting according to one?s conscience. It includes self-discipline, carefulness and deliberation. Conscientiousness is also referred to as character.
Many men enter into relationships e.g. intimate relationships, marriages and fatherhood with no clue as to how to love or appreciate the other person. Men have a tendency to be physical creatures, in many cases they need to see or touch in order to engage themselves. Why is it that men need visual or physical contact in order to exemplify love? Love is not something you can see or touch. It is an intangible emotion. Love is unconditional. Mothers you must instill these traits in your male children as soon as they enter into the world. Hugging, kissing and comforting are not sufficient for male offspring. Teach them to make responsible informed decisions and that their actions have consequences of which they are accountable. Today a young man said something to me that I considered to be profound. He said ?Every time a man is intimate with a woman he leaves a part of himself with her.? ?Whether it is physical or psychological he leaves something.?
Mothers educate your sons that marriage is a sacred union before God and it is not to be taken lightly. Before choosing a mate make sure she is who God has ordained for you. Stop looking at her physical characteristics. If your preference is fair complexion, she might indeed be dark. If you prefer Caucasian she might be black or other. She might be short and you prefer tall. It?s all aesthetics. Look beyond the physical and into the spiritual. A man once told me that the surface is the first thing that you see and there must be some sort of physical attraction. News flash, this is not love it is lust or mere appreciation for beauty. Love is a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a spouse, child, friend or lover. Since when does external beauty constitute love? Love is beautiful in itself. There is nothing wrong with admiring beauty, but beauty is only skin deep. Love runs deep and if your love is on the surface, I believe it?s what you call ?shallow.? And you wonder why your relationships do not last.
Mothers prepare your sons for fatherhood. If you build a strong foundation in the beginning these traits will transfer into their journey as fathers. Remember a child is like a sponge he or she can only soak up what you expose them to. The same qualities you instill in them so shall they instill in their children and so forth and so on??
I reiterate, Mothers Teach Your Sons.
There is nothing more powerful than a mother?s love. A mother?s love is like a blanket of protection. It represents security and warmth. When a child is born he or she tends to bond with the nurturing parent, in most cases the mother. By nature women are nurturers and comforters. When a woman has a male child it is her responsibility to instill love, compassion and conscientiousness. Conscientiousness, now that is a word that is rarely spoken or used. Conscientiousness is the trait of being careful or acting according to one?s conscience. It includes self-discipline, carefulness and deliberation. Conscientiousness is also referred to as character.
Many men enter into relationships e.g. intimate relationships, marriages and fatherhood with no clue as to how to love or appreciate the other person. Men have a tendency to be physical creatures, in many cases they need to see or touch in order to engage themselves. Why is it that men need visual or physical contact in order to exemplify love? Love is not something you can see or touch. It is an intangible emotion. Love is unconditional. Mothers you must instill these traits in your male children as soon as they enter into the world. Hugging, kissing and comforting are not sufficient for male offspring. Teach them to make responsible informed decisions and that their actions have consequences of which they are accountable. Today a young man said something to me that I considered to be profound. He said ?Every time a man is intimate with a woman he leaves a part of himself with her.? ?Whether it is physical or psychological he leaves something.?
Mothers educate your sons that marriage is a sacred union before God and it is not to be taken lightly. Before choosing a mate make sure she is who God has ordained for you. Stop looking at her physical characteristics. If your preference is fair complexion, she might indeed be dark. If you prefer Caucasian she might be black or other. She might be short and you prefer tall. It?s all aesthetics. Look beyond the physical and into the spiritual. A man once told me that the surface is the first thing that you see and there must be some sort of physical attraction. News flash, this is not love it is lust or mere appreciation for beauty. Love is a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a spouse, child, friend or lover. Since when does external beauty constitute love? Love is beautiful in itself. There is nothing wrong with admiring beauty, but beauty is only skin deep. Love runs deep and if your love is on the surface, I believe it?s what you call ?shallow.? And you wonder why your relationships do not last.
Mothers prepare your sons for fatherhood. If you build a strong foundation in the beginning these traits will transfer into their journey as fathers. Remember a child is like a sponge he or she can only soak up what you expose them to. The same qualities you instill in them so shall they instill in their children and so forth and so on??
I reiterate, Mothers Teach Your Sons.
1. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. ? Unknown Author
2. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father. ? Lydia M Child
3. A father carries pictures where his money use to be. ? Author Unknown
4. Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the riches inheritance. ? Ruth E Renkel
5. The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old rode. ? Angelo Patri
6. Any man can be a father; it takes someone special to be a dad. ? Unknown Author
7. Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ? Unknown Author
8. Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren?t through being children. ? Cindy Garner
9. There?s something like a line of gold thread running through a man?s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough, you can pick up in your hands and weave it into a cloth that feels like love itself. ? John Gregory Brown
10. If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. -Thomas Fuller
11. To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.- Euripides
12. Certain is it that there is no kind of affection as purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there is no words to express. ? Joseph Addison
13. A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ? Irish Saying
14. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father?s protection. ? Sigmund Freud
15. Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. -Anne Geddes
16. Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers ? and fathering is a very important stage in their development. ? David M. Gottesman
17. One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. ? George Herbert
18. If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.- Russell Hoban
19. My father didn?t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ? Clarence Budington Kelland
20. My father said, ?Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right??? Dexter Scott King
21. A wise son maketh a glad father. ? Proverbs 10:1
22. None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world ? so great, so good, so faultless. Try all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don?t be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal. ? Queen Victoria of England
23. Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. ? Ruth E. Renkel
24. Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what?s in him and what?s been given him. ? Laurence Rockefeller
25. It?s only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leaves him for your own career and your own home ? it?s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. ? Margaret Truman
26. A man?s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.- Unknown
27. Small boy?s definition of Father?s Day: It?s just like Mother?s Day only you don?t spend so much. ? Unknown
28. By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he?s wrong. ? Charles Wadsworth
29. It is a wise father that knows his own child. -William Shakespeare
30. One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be. ? Anonymous
31. When I was a kid, my father told me every day, ?You?re the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to. ? Jan Hutchins
32. Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. -Bill Cosby
33. Father! ? To God himself we cannot give a holier name. -William Wordsworth
34. It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ? Johann Schiller
35. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. Mark Twain, ?Old Times on the Mississippi
36. Dad, you?re someone to look up to no matter how tall I?ve grown. -Author Unknown
37. Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. -Gloria Naylor
38. The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad! ? Author Unknown
39. Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
40. Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
41. I don?t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he?s rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
42. Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. -Author Unknown
43. There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.-Samuel Johnson
44. If you know his father and grandfather you may trust his son.-Moroccan proverb
45. When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.-Mack R. Douglas
46. My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. -Jim Valvano
47. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.-David O.Mc Kay
48. It doesn?t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. -Anne Sexton
49. Children have more need of models than critics.- Joseph Joubert
50. A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.- Knights of Pythagoras
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