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Associated Press
14 hours ago
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- Associated Press
Happy Father's Day - Training Sons to become responsible fathers
For Father's Day, make an effort to develop sons to become responsible fathers 'Read today and become better tomorrow'— Geary Reid LINDEN HIGHWAY, REGION 4, GUYANA, June 15, 2025 / / -- Parents must make every effort to train their sons to become responsible fathers. Geary Reid, as a father and husband, strives to impart important lessons to parents, encouraging them to invest in the development of their sons and become responsible fathers. Section A: Boyhood During the stage of boyhood, each parent should understand that boys will experiment with many things, which will provide them with personal life experiences and teach various lessons. This is a critical stage for every parent to train and develop their sons. Imparting good values, morals, manners, and other key life skills to sons during the early phase of their lives is essential, as it sets a solid foundation for their future. Boys need guidance. While external persons can provide some guidance, it is often good for them to receive advice from their parents and siblings. Parents usually recognize their children's strengths and weaknesses and know how to help them. Proper guidance and encouragement can lead to children quickly developing and, therefore, becoming valuable resources to their parents and society. Educating boys is essential for ensuring that they play important roles in our societies in the future. Education is unbiased, so parents must ensure that their sons are properly educated consistently. Sports and games are also important for boys, as they learn to be disciplined and cooperate with others. Through sports, team spirit and accountability will be understood, and boys can apply these qualities to their relationships when they become husbands. Parents must train their children to respect everyone. Boys may sometimes show resistance to this, but as parents constantly remind their sons, many of those boys will learn to respect everyone, and people will begin to talk about how mannerly they are. Having a relationship with the Creator is important for both adults and children. The example set by parents in this regard is one that their children will likely follow. Many children go on to have a continuous relationship with the Creator and eventually take on major roles within religious institutions. Moral values must be taught within the home. Both boys and girls must learn some important moral lessons so that when they have their own families, they will be able to pass these values on to their families. Most boys will learn about sex from schoolmates, neighbors, and other people, but the information they learn is sometimes incorrect. Therefore, parents must be one of the major teachers of sexual education within their homes. The experience that parents have is reasonable enough to guide their sons. Parents should guide their sons on being in a relationship, emphasizing that there are more important things than sex in a relationship. This guidance is especially important for boys of adolescent age. Family planning may be taught primarily to girls, but this practice needs to change, and both sons and daughters should become aware of family planning before entering into relationships. Section B: Manhood When sons move from boyhood to manhood, they have entered another important phase in their lives. They are expected to demonstrate many of the things that their parents taught them. There are some areas in which these men will still need to improve, since no parent can teach a child everything. During this phase of manhood, men will put to the test the things they have learned from their parents and friends. Sometimes, they want to explore life. They are willing to take on new challenges, even if they fail. Gaining experience for oneself will include both failure and success. Those who want to be successful must be willing to try, rather than spending most of their time only thinking of what it may be like. The money earned by men must be used wisely, so when they are ready to establish their own families, they have their portion of the money. To manage their finances effectively, people need to increase their earnings, make informed investments, and carefully control their spending. When men manage their money during their single life, they may be good stewards within their new family. When a woman is looking for a companion, she may seek a man who knows how to perform domestic tasks. While she does not expect him to be the only person doing the domestic activities at home, at least his contribution will have a significant impact on the family. Men who were taught by their parents to be involved in domestic activities must make great use of those skills, which will help their family to have more time for love and laughter. Finding a companion may not be as easy as finding a job. Those who are looking for companions must have values and seek those who have the potential to contribute to the growth of their family. There are many places to find a suitable companion. Once a person sees a companion and is reasonably satisfied with that individual, then it is time to consider marriage. Section C: Fatherhood Having a family is not a task for boys, but for men who are committed and want to make a positive contribution to their families and society. Some men are running away from family life, while others are running towards it. Not everyone knows that there is a great commitment for those who want to live with a companion and children. Those men who are fathers are expected to be good fathers to their children. Every child wants a father who sets a good example for them to follow, and many children use their fathers as role models. Fathers must also be willing to take their children to the clinics, watch movies with them, and play with them. When fathers attend Parent-Teacher Association meetings, they send a positive message to teachers that they are interested in their children's educational development. Protecting the family is a job entrusted to fathers, not to security companies, and the protection provided by fathers is more than just their physical strength. Women sometimes marry men because they need someone to protect them, and children love to know that they have a father who can protect them. Fathers and mothers can provide for the family. When fathers are the main source of financing for the family, they must be delighted to do so for their family. Fathers must be firm yet gentle with their children, although children may not always appreciate their fathers being firm. When fathers are firm, it helps boys to desist from doing the wrong things and following people who will not contribute to their success. Children must learn to respect their parents, friends, and neighbors. The respect shown to persons will cause those children to win friendships and give them great success. Parents, teach your children to respect everyone, and teach your sons to be responsible fathers so that their families will be happy in the future. For more information about Geary Reid and his books, please use the contact information below: Amazon: Website: Facebook: ReidnLearn, Email: [email protected], Mobile #: 592-645-2240. GEARY REID REID'S LEARNING INSTITUTE AND BUSINESS CONSULTANCY 592 645 2240 email us here Visit us on social media: LinkedIn Instagram Facebook Other Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content 'as is' without warranty of any kind. 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Telegraph
17 hours ago
- General
- Telegraph
The novels every 16-year-old boy should read
It's hard to be a boy. A few years ago, such a statement would be unthinkable. After all, we were told we lived in an enlightened world where traditionally 'masculine' qualities – strength, fortitude, stoicism – were outdated, even toxic. No longer. Almost weekly, we get a new headline decrying the difficulty of being a young man. Andrew Tate, the manosphere, Adolescence: the crisis of boyhood, especially among poor, working-class boys, is well attested to. And last week the National Literacy Trust found that reading enjoyment for boys aged 11-16 is at the lowest level it has been for two decades; for girls, by contrast, it was slightly improved. What's to be done? One solution, of course, is to find books that boys want to read. By themselves, books won't teach you how to move through the world as a man. But there are few better places to start: books are invitations to other worlds, other minds. There is no better tool for empathy. My boyhood reading is what made me who I am today. As a teenager, my tastes were omnivorous and hopelessly pretentious. But the book which stayed with me the most was Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. As a young man, I was thrilled by adventure and the sense of possibility that lay off the edge of old maps and half-understood languages. Now though, as a slightly less young man, I turn back to it for its quiet, gentle humanity. For me, the process of growing up through – and with – books, has above all been about grasping one message: to be a great man is easy. But to be a good man? That is truly tough. The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier First published in 1956, The Silver Sword tells the story of three Polish children Edek, Bronia and Ruth, caught up in the chaos of the Second World War, who with the help of an older boy, Jan, set off across Europe in search of their vanished parents. It's a cracking adventure story, with improving lessons about courage, friendship and loyalty. It first enthralled me when I was about 14, enthralled my son and more recently enthralled my grandson. Mick Brown Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh When I was 16 and thinking of trying to get into Cambridge to read English my marvellous English master gave me a pile of novels, plays and poetry to consume, reaching far outside the English A-level course. Hidden among the heavy novels was a slim volume called Decline and Fall, by Evelyn Waugh. I had never read anything like it; jokes on every page, many of them quite offensive, ridicule of the aristocracy, the church, the penal system and above all schools, and all told in a relentless narrative drive that caused me to finish the book in two or three hours. I had within weeks read everything else that Waugh wrote, and I doubt I was the only youth on whom he had that effect. His style is magnificent and his appeal irresistible. Simon Heffer by Geoffrey Household I can imagine that many teenage boys would find the reckless, solitary narrator of Household's classic thriller as easy to identify with as Adrian Mole. Published a few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, the book begins with the protagonist taking it on himself to assassinate an unnamed foreign leader (recognisably Hitler); failing, he goes on the run and ends up hiding from his pursuers in a hole in the ground in the 'green depths' of Dorset. The classic novel of how to draw on your inner resources to survive, it's the most exciting, vicarious adventure I've experienced. Jake Kerridge The Short Stories of HG Wells by HG Wells Long before there was Black Mirror, there was HG Wells cracking out some of the weirdest, most thought-provoking stories ever written. They're short; they don't dwell too much on character development; and they twist the mind in all sorts of new directions. The Country of the Blind and The Door in the Wall are classics, but there's plenty more to grab the teen imagination here. Enjoyed Supacell on Netflix? Take a sip of The New Accelerator, the elixir that makes movement so rapid it can set your clothes on fire. Like superheroes? Check out The Man Who Could Work Miracles. These stories are the foundation stones of science-fiction. Whole universes await. Chris Harvey Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Don't let the fact that the title is a part of a Macbeth soliloquy put off the teenager in your life: Gabrielle Zevin's novel is really a paean to the magic of video games and young, mixed-sex friendships. The story of Sam and Sadie – childhood best friends who grew apart but rekindle their relationship and start a successful games studio – is modern, literary but accessible and, above all, an absorbing tale. While many parents fret about their children spending too much time playing video games rather than reading books, Tomorrow … could be an effective gateway to the joys of literature. I only wish that it had been published when I was a boy, rather than (as I did) reading it on my honeymoon. Liam Kelly The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut I haven't dared pick up a Vonnegut for 20 years. I fear he is one of those habits you probably ought to have dropped by your twenties, like picking your nose or minding who wins football matches. But I was a huge Vonnegut guy in my teens. Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions tend to be recommended but the one I really loved was The Sirens of Titan. It is so stuffed full of madcap ideas that no AI or video game could ever compete. Sadly I can't see how the plot would be relevant to readers today: it is about an astronomically wealthy man who finances a trip to Mars and imperils all of humanity. Ed Cumming by Adrian Tchaikovsky In my own teenage years, science fiction offered an exciting bridge to grown-up literature, with big ideas expressed in the fine prose of Ray Bradbury, Ursula K Le Guin, Philip K Dick and Kurt Vonnegut. Recently, one of my sons was having so much fun reading Dogs of War by contemporary British sci-fi star Adrian Tchaikovsky that I dove in myself. It's a mind-boggling story that extrapolates the genetically modified animals of HG Wells's The Island of Dr Moreau into a cyberpunk future not far removed from our own. The narrator is a heavily armed dog named Rex, and the tale addresses moral quandaries around artificial intelligence, slavery, animal welfare and the ethics of warfare with wit and pathos. My son and I have already gobbled up the excellent sequel, 2021's brilliant Bear Head, and eagerly await volume three, Bee Speaker (due later this year). Neil McCormick Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen'. If that stark opening line doesn't hook them in, then doubtful readers can be assured that the ensuing pages contain the most perturbing futuristic vision of England ever written, a world of constant surveillance, ever-changing jargon, physical violence, sinister authority and the crushing of individuality; in short everything a teenage boy may feel is already the case but magnified to the nth degree. Any young reader will emerge from Orwell 's suspenseful masterpiece armed with a handy range of sharp political and philosophical concepts and inspired to devour more where that came from. Dominic Cavendish
