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This week we read about "Preparing for a Wife." What a great chapter! I just had to come here and comment on how I've loved watching my boy interact with his little sisters today. He's usually a pretty good big brother (with two of the three little girls anyway), but today has been phenomenal. And then there's the little girls' response to him. It's just made my heart smile. So I had to share.

We haven't started Beyond yet (next year!), but already, at 6.5, my son talks about his wife someday. It warms my heart to know that my husband and I have modeled a marriage that while not perfect (whose is?!), is obviously still such a positive example, that my son already picks up on it, and desires to have his own wife and children some day. It really makes me feel good!

StillJulie wrote:This week we read about "Preparing for a Wife." What a great chapter! I just had to come here and comment on how I've loved watching my boy interact with his little sisters today. He's usually a pretty good big brother (with two of the three little girls anyway), but today has been phenomenal. And then there's the little girls' response to him. It's just made my heart smile. So I had to share.

We found this to be true for us, as well! Right down to the change in how we treat our younger sisters! The Bob Schultz books are really, really good. My boys relate well to his books, and seem to take the lessons to heart. After reading Boyhood and Beyond, we chose to do the Created For Work book this year. We thoroughly enjoyed that one, and were sad to reach the end of it. I'm thrilled (and so is my ds) that HOD scheduled Practical Happiness (for boys) to be done in the WG guide!

Thanks so much for sharing this, Julie!

Awwww! That is wonderful. I sure would love to have heard their conversations! Your children are lovely.

This book has a way of helping young boys begin thinking about becoming young Christian men that makes them WANT to be 'that guy.' It is not preachy, it is so down to earth, and the way Bob Schultz writes makes boys want to grow up to be Godly men. It is a diamond in the rough - what a talent that man had in writing. How I wish he was still here to write more!!! But God's timing is always right. My oldest ds is reading "Practical Happiness" by Bob Schultz for his Bible devotional in the HOD WG guide, and I find the same to be true - only with even more mature topics. I am so thankful for this Godly guidance for my sons, as my dh is not always comfortable talking about these things, and I don't know how to or even what topics to bring up sometimes. Thanks for posting this, and I am sure some lovely little Christian lady will reap the benefits of your ds practicing being a Godly man with his sisters someday!

In Christ,
Julie