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The author presented several compelling concepts - how does a Man know when he is a man. I found this to be a powerful concept. I also really liked the idea of writing a code for boys to understand what it means to be a man, and to “train to it” while growing up. Knights are the example the writer teaches his son, who took boys as squires since 13 and used them to fetch them things and later taught them how to fight.
While of course teaching the bible throughout the whole book. I enjoyed the themes in this book very much. I think it present Biblical manhood without trying too hard to be macho or overstate the point. The focus on explicitly teaching concepts is welcome advice, and the concept of having ceremonies to mark important stages is certainly one to consider. The tone is challenging without being aggressive, and I would give the overall themes of the book five stars. The book pulled on my heartstrings and really led me to want to encourage my husband to be a more involved force in our sons' lives.
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They have formed a fellowship with which to hold each other accountable – to create moments together where rites of passage can be documented and boys can turn into men through ceremonies and training. The author's larger point about being proactive and 'strategic' fathers is well taken, and there are lots of good practical suggestions to help raise boys into 'authentic' men. I ordered this book as a mom of 3 boys.
I highly recommend this one to every dad and every son out there. Still, I appreciated this book and hope to use it as I'm training my son. Having rituals for our sons to pass into manhood is a lost art. Lewis does a great job with the call to action to start making investments in our sons.
Raising a Modern Day Knight
There are two reasons that I didn’t give it a higher rating. First, it got really weird when Lewis stated that he believed that Jesus placed his baptism above anything that he did while on the earth, you know, greater than the whole crucifixion and resurrection thing. He was trying to prove the point that ceremony is important. I agree, however, there is no need to cutesify Jesus in order to prove your point. I think this is a great book for any man raising boys.
Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. In the third installment of Suzanne Collins's New York Times bestselling The Underland Chronicles, Gregor must stop a plague from spreading through the Underland. Jodi is married to her high school sweetheart. She blogs about fermentation, whole foods, homeschooling, essential oils, home-birthing, and gardening. …I will also be sharing with my hubby. We have one son who is 13 going on 14.
Bringing Up Boys 2014
This book Opened my eyes to a need in christian america today. I would recommend it to any man with children or, thinking of having children. If you are not any of those things, this might not be the parenting book for you.
What a powerful, life changing moment that really can be so simple. However, there are two things that take the book down a notch. For one, he urges men to build a strong network that will provide for accountability, encouragement, and support. In the time that has passed since he began his friendship with the men in his circle, time and culture have made it more difficult for men to form tight bonds. The second issue I have is that there is more must go into a father/son relationship for all the training and ceremony to truly take hold. Admittedly, that could be covered outside of this book, but I still think that there is some foundational work that must be done for these lessons to have the impact he describes.
Raising A Modern Day Knight
A group of guys met from our church, and really from our community. The group setting was pretty informal. I think for Raising a Modern Day Knight — they actually watched the video series and worked through the journal that accompanies the book. Robert Lewis’ book was excellent and I can’t wait to start to partner with other dads, raising boys to men.
I’m thankful Robert Lewis and his friends were inspired to guide their sons into men of integrity. I pray all men will be equally inspired. Great book about how to raise boys modeled off the mentoring process of becoming a knight along with biblical principles. Written for dads, but a good read for mothers as well who play an important supporting role in the process. I am still reading and Greg will be reading this week. This is a quick read but a book we will need to own so that we can refer back to it on a regular basis.
Time to dust this book off and re-read it. This is an excellent book detailing how to raise a boy to become a man, following in the example of Jesus Christ. It shows intentional steps one can take to facilitate this process.
That said, this book is a Christian book - even if you are not a practicing Christian, I think it would be hard to argue with the recommendations presented here. I also really liked the themes of modeling behavior as a father, and reinforcing how men are supposed to treat women. As the author mentions, daughters also learned from this “training” and modeling and understand what they should expect from men in their lives.
Robert Lewis is really onto something here! John Eldridge, in Wild at Heart, talks about the systematic and comprehensive "demasculinization" of society. Boys are taught from a young age that they're not to act like boys. At the same time, our society praises the objectification of women and, through popular media, imply that manhood is something that is defined by the woman at your side. What a complete and ludicrous statement! Our boys don't ever have a transition - so we have a bunch of fully grown male homo sapiens that haven't stepped into their role as men.
I finished this book feeling discouraged. Not only will I not get to enjoy many of these things with my father , but I honestly have no clue how I would implement many of the ideas given for my son. I realize that the book was written 25 years ago and things have greatly changed even in that relatively short period of time. I just don’t know how to make it happen. Creating a Coat of Arms that depicts you and your sons’ commitment to biblically-based manhood can generate great conversations about what real men are and what they represent. In the book Raising a Modern-Day Knight, the author Robert Lewis mentions the importance of creating a symbol or crest that represents you and your son vision of manhood.
A Challenge to Families with Boys
It had some encouraging tips, but mostly impractical stories of what he did in his atypical setting. Only a knight can raise a knight brings about self-doubt in the reader. Might read it again later when my stepson is older but it was useless for me now. Then it proceeds to say that boys need to have ceremonies/rights of passage to manhood and celebrate their masculinity which is being smothered by feminism. Pleasantly void of any "taking back American Christianity from effeminate culture" language, this book is not about raising up your son to be a 'Manly Man'. It's a book about the importance of teaching your son values in a way that he hears them and they take root in his character.
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