September 2024
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Your kids’ memories are not what you expect
One of the primary reasons we try to spend quality, fun time with kids is to fill their memory with colorful and empowering episodes. As men, we always want them to remember things we do together and to memorize what we tell them. It makes perfect sense – life happens to us all, people get…
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The worst thing you can do for your kids is make them fat
We all remember Socrates’ words from Plato’s works – “It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.” Being overweight takes you further from Nature, from Gods, and from functioning at your full capacity. The parents are responsible for their kids’ body…
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Slow down
You are not slowing down with your kids enough. Both you and the kids need to be slowed down. This gets more and more important every year considering how our culture evolves. Everything about how we as a society interact with the world is faster, more shallow, overproduced, overconsumed, and overconnected. Kids today are assaulted…
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Watching movies with your kids
Watching movies together is a great activity for education, bonding, and expanding your kids’ horizons. However, you need to be mindful and intentional about it so that you do more good than harm. Here’s a set of rules I’ve formulated for myself while picking movies and arranging movie nights. Don’t watch too much Movies are…
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Predator (1987) – a discussion on barbarism
The first Predator movie is one of the essential paganism/masculinity movies for kids in my opinion. It’s packed with suspense, action, and has zero woke mumbo-jumbo that makes modern movies unwatchable. The main theme of the movie is how Dutch returns to a wild barbaric state and becomes the hunter after being hunted – and…
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Yakari – a colorful intro to Pagan/Animistic worldview
I’ve found this cartoon thanks to Marie Cachet recommendation back in 2016-ish. It’s produced in France and there are 52 12-minute episodes based on an older comic book – but the series has been unfortunately discontinued. Here is the official channel for the episodes in English – https://www.youtube.com/@yakarienglishofficial3469/videos The official description: Yakari, a Sioux boy,…
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Ace Ventura – the masculine role model they don’t make anymore
Ace Ventura (both parts, but part 1 especially) has to be one of the most accessible & fun masculine movies you can watch with your kids. In fact, Ace is a masculinity icon they don’t make anymore. And you probably won’t read that elsewhere because he’s not your cookie-cutter manly man hero. But I’d pair…
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Athena and Ares. Victory is the wisdom.
Note how the goddess of wisdom is Athena – who is also the goddess of strategic warfare. Ares is also a god of war – but he is the patron of carnage, brutal and violent action. Homeric Europe had (at least) two gods of war. The god of wisdom is also a god of war.…