The benefit a father can confer on his son is to make him fit to occupy the front rank in the assembly of the learned.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
The dynamic of fathers and sons seems to be more around competition regarding things such as knowledge, accomplishments, expertise.
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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