Comments on: Like Father, Like Son

By: joe

joe — Sun, 08 May 2011 00:24:58 +0000

Ive read at least one article a day for a week. These help me to stay focus, I am glad that NGJ has them available.

By: janel

janel — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:24:20 +0000

“something mother will never understand share”

Women have a nature, God-given imperative to create a union with the newborn baby, a union a man can only understand if he himself experienced it with his mother.

Almost everyone, alive today, male and female, has missed this opportunity. The opportunity has been robbed of them.

In our culture the greatest damage done to humanity is the separation of mother-baby in the first minutes/hours/days of the new soul’s life on earth. The mother-baby connection made at birth will define their relationship for life. 99% of the time this relationship is immediately, repeated disrupted by outsiders doing unmedically necessary interventions. Interventions that are lucrative. Interventions that create the ability of the medical system and other systems to interlope into family life.

Fathers are very disempowered at this time as well, unable to protect their wife and child as nature intended.

It is time for men to rise up and protect women and babies in birthing, the soul’s coming to this planet, into the arms, at the breast of the woman, both in the arms of the man. Not medically induced, drugged, poked, prodded, cut and pulled out to be orally raped, scrubbed, separated, and crying in the nursery.

Your story is great … but too many men do not and will not ever have that relationship with their child.

The mother-baby-father union is being violated and it is impacting humanity.

My film for and about men at birth:
http://www.theothersideoftheglass.com

By: Tonya

Tonya — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:56:50 +0000

I understand the “something mother will never understand share” comment perfectly:). I have 4 sons, aged 7-12 and I can attest to the fact that , while I homeschool and spend much more time with them, time with DAD is MEN’s time. They connect as men just like I connect with my girls in a way that their Daddy never will. It’s a special, fun commonality of gender where the young admire, look up to and seek to immitate the “old”. It doesn’t matter if my husband is going to change the oil in the car, pick up mulch for the front flower beds or look at campers/vans. The boys just love being with him. They do talk to me non-stop about all sort of things, but it’s no substitute for just hanging out with dad. He says a lot less than I do but he conveys a lot more.

Thanks for writing this. I loved it.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:21:29 +0000

I just wanted to say Thank you, Mr.Michael Pearl! I so know what you mean when you say he’s sturdy as a fence post b/c I’ve seen the same in my son 10 year old Bradley. It makes me smile to see a confident hard working young man emulating his father. I will always remember “More is caught than taught” Thanks again and God bless you and yours! love always

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:39:09 +0000

Thank you Michael for this excellent article!
I am still anticipating God’s timing for starting my own family, but this is precisely what I’ve come to believe about the privilege and responsibility of a father before God concerning his sons. This has developed in me over the past 5 or 6 years of reading your materials and others, prayerful observation of many families, and through endeavoring to help my younger siblings reach greater heights than I had at their age. This article is a great summary to put it all together.

By: Sonya

Sonya — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:19:51 +0000

To Jennifer who commented: Our teamwork time as mamas should be spent perpetually speaking and behaving and teaching them in that which edifies their daddy while he is away toiling…that way, while he is home they want nothing more than to mirror him in whatever he does.In our home, their daddy is the most amazing man to ever live according to mama and when I teach them and teamwork with them, I often speak of how this will help them to be even more like daddy.When I train,I am ever mindful of what traits will make it easier for them to work along side their daddy fluidly as they grow older.It is our great honor as mamas to honor daddy’s unique role in our homes that we can never replicate.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:17:31 +0000

“They were a team, something even a mother could never understand or share.”

That was not a true statement. Mother’s tend to have more teamwork time with the children than dad’s ever will. Part of that is that sadly daddies have to be at work most of the time.

By: heidiwatson

heidiwatson — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:26:19 +0000

we would love to receive your news letter!

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:27:33 +0000

Whew, Did I need that! I am the blessed father of 5 boys ages 12 to 2 and feel like I am always on the go. Working two jobs has turned me into a bit of a nag. I needed this moment of reflection and now to repentance then back to the drawing board for a fresh start. Thanks for the pearl of wisdom you have shared. Blessings,
Bill

By: Don

Don — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:23:43 +0000

Having three sons of my own, this reminder was much needed. I’ve learned that any time I have to give is better than no time at all. My sons are never content with idleness. They don’t know it but they feel it if they have moments lacking in activity. If I am with them, sharing in work and responsibility, they will work as long a I do. Which is quite a bit for 10, 9, and 6 year old boys.
I came to the same conclusion not too long ago concerning my boys being another opportunity for me. These young men are God’s gift to me. An chance to rear men with higher standards and greater character than I had at there age. Just like my salvation, I certainly don’t deserve this gift… but that’s the whole point, isn’t it.