Teach your son to master his impulses, desires, frustration, pride, and anger because his future depends on his ability to control what tries to control him.
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Maybe the real advice would be to teach yourself such things before you presume to instruct others. Children learn by imitation.
It’s starts there
I don’t have sons. I have daughters, but the below is categorically true because if your son doesn’t “master his impulses” around my daughters, your son isn’t going to make it to adulthood.
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learning to surrender to a good Woman will inspire you to master all of this and more :3
What do you mean by surrender? Surrender what?
A boy who’s taught to master his anger learns to hide it. Then he has to find something to medicate it. Teach your son that his anger isn’t good or bad, it’s just fuel, and that you can sit with him in it. That’s what he’ll be able to do with his own son.
I hear you. I prefer to teach them to control it. To know themselves and their triggers. Sit with them as they learn themselves.
surrender the idea that you have to figure everything out.
surrender the instinct to control rather than listen.
surrender pride and ego to integrity.
surrender the fragile autonomy that keeps you isolated in your struggles.
surrender the story that your worth is measured by how much you can control (yourself or the world), instead of who you are and how you love.
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