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"How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?"
I will always remember the day Frank (my father) sang these words to me.
I, like so many other people have had many conflicting ideas about how to be a man.
Lesley (my mother) often criticized Frank, and only now am I beginning to understand what is likely to be true.
I believe there is no simple formula to follow to be a man. The advice "be yourself" may be true, though I did not find the advice at all useful.
After years of attempting to model Lesley's idea about what she expected of Frank, I have found that is definitely not the way to go.
Many of the role models that I admired were not the best role models to follow. Many people said Frank was weak. Yet I have discovered that much of what others claimed to be Frank's weaknesses were in fact his strengths.
It was late in Frank's life when he sang that song to me.
I think he was still feeling lost in those roads to manhood.
I certainly was.
As a child, I wanted to be a good boy. childcare course melbourne. I earnestly prayed for God to make me a good boy. Yet I did not really understand that goal. Lesley was doing her best to be a good mother. I now have empathy for Lesley. The goal she was pursuing was impossible to achieve. At that time in her life she failed to realize that her definition of good was in some ways no less valid than another person's idea of what is good.
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"How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?"
I will always remember the day Frank (my father) sang these words to me.
I, like so many other people have had many conflicting ideas about how to be a man.
Lesley (my mother) often criticized Frank, and only now am I beginning to understand what is likely to be true.
I believe there is no simple formula to follow to be a man. The advice "be yourself" may be true, though I did not find the advice at all useful.
After years of attempting to model Lesley's idea about what she expected of Frank, I have found that is definitely not the way to go.
Many of the role models that I admired were not the best role models to follow. Many people said Frank was weak. Yet I have discovered that much of what others claimed to be Frank's weaknesses were in fact his strengths.
It was late in Frank's life when he sang that song to me.
I think he was still feeling lost in those roads to manhood.
I certainly was.
As a child, I wanted to be a good boy. childcare course melbourne. I earnestly prayed for God to make me a good boy. Yet I did not really understand that goal. Lesley was doing her best to be a good mother. I now have empathy for Lesley. The goal she was pursuing was impossible to achieve. At that time in her life she failed to realize that her definition of good was in some ways no less valid than another person's idea of what is good.
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