Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.
Every boy grows up trying to be like his father, but what if a boy grows up to be like his mother?
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.
The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
If I have taught my sons anything in life, it is to have integrity - to always tell the truth, and I believe they have.
Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.