Outline:

• Need to set boundaries and for our sons to become men.

• Fathers need to have a plan. Their sons should have a real trade by the time they are an adult.

• The dad is the template his daughter will look for in a man. He needs to affirm her and give her protection.

• Boys don’t just grow up to become men. They struggle with the question, “What does it mean to be a man?”

• No one can give what they do not have. Young men need structure and a narrative of what’s right and what’s wrong.

• Men, eat with your family. Talk with your children.

• Boys need physical play with their dads.

• DO NOT GIVE UNSUPERVISED INTERNET ACCESS TO YOUR KIDS!

• Tell your children about your ancestors and men of virtue.

• Your primary duty is to love your family. The Protestant idea of men ruling over the family is wrong. Authority is for a duty and the duty is to love your wife and children.e

• You must tell them what it means to be a man and how a man lives.

• Traditional rites are important. Do manly things alone with your boys.

• Company-keeping (dating/courtship) with the intent to prompt marriage is a necessary near occasion to sin, so it should be done prudently. Take proper precautions. Dating is not a recreation. It is serious. Avoid being alone together. Pray. Utilize communion and confession.

• When you are ready, you should be able to put a roof over her head and food on the table. You don’t need to have much, but you must be able to provide the necessities.

• Q&A.