The Power of Discipline

Every young boy growing up has to do this thing Leon Podles talks about it in his book on the church the church impotent about how every son has to do something that daughters don't have to do. Even though he's in the presence of his mother a lot of the time he's got to push away and reject his mother as a model of what he is to become Eric just wants to jump in front of you and he has to say I don't want to become my mother I want to become like my father I want to be a man. So there's so much gravity there for absolombs when there is no father or when the father fails because the son still knows I