Reader Greg Dwyer of Oregon sends the following:
Yours is the website I have been continuously reading the longest and the one I most identify with. So I figured I’d tell you something. I recently celebrated the birth of my first son, Michael Gabriel. And he will not go through life padded in Nerf.
He is going to play dodge ball and tag.
I will let him eat trans fats and foie gras.
He can play Grand Theft Auto when he is old enough.
He will know that medicine is a risky business that doesn’t always provide perfect cures.
He is going to be able to shoot a gun well by the time he is 21 and I will take him to get his gun license myself.
Most of all, I will teach him that life is what you make of it and if he fails at something, he will have no one to blame but himself.
Loving father and non-victicrat,
Greg Dwyer
3 Comments
Bravo !!!!
This is how I raised my son’s (3 of them). They all work, all pay their own way in society, and they believe in personal responsibility and assumption of risk.
Well said, sir!
Now please wait while the nerf-nazis come to take you away for child endangerment.
Don’t forget to let your son know there are also consequences attached to every decision one makes.
Have to differ with you on the last one: the liability of living in society is that sometimes personal failure IS due to the faults of others.