Pity is the highest form of descrimination. To excuse someone from the standard is to deem them less human.  It’s the slippery slope I see teachers and coaches tumbling down.  As more research emerges about the effects of trauma and…

Jesus isn’t taking the wheel, and there is no specific purpose for your life and that’s a great thing.  Here’s why,  We are Created in God’s image.  (Genesis 1:29) If you believe that, lets move to level two.  He is…

Masculine Can't Be Toxic 

Toxic masculinity is an oxymoron.  Objectifying women, sexism, gender inequality is anything but masculine.  It’s what little boys do. Little boys hit girls, they challenge them to races, and get excited when they beat them in…

Say what you mean, what you say: Why Truth Bombs Bring Peace

 My friend Heath Brown has a saying, “anything good is hard and takes all your time.” Maybe that’s why we dress up and water down what we say.…

Everything you love was really hard to get.  It’s why you love it so much. It cost you, so you protect it.  If you lost it, it would crush you. If your wife is the girl of your dreams, you…

A popular thing to say right now is “kids are soft.”  No they’re not. Kids didn’t suddenly start arriving on earth differently. 
You still have to do the same things to make a child. They still take 9 months to…

The way we think doesn’t get shaped overnight.  It comes from years of experiences. Then the strories we tell ourselves about those experience.  Those stories build a belief system that suggests to us, this is how the world works. Let’s…

Have you ever had your dream come true?  Then turn into a nightmare.  Has your biggest fear ever become a reality.  All of this is a very recent and very real experience for me.  Long, long story short is this…

“Keep both hands on the bat and swing through!”  My sons little league coach preached.  “you’re timing is good, you’re contact is good but you stopped swinging and the ball isn’t going any where.”  While I watched Jay wrestle with…

Let’s face it, convenience is our most prized possession.  It consumes our every thought, decision, and path we take.   Living things share the survival mechanism of saving energy to conserve calories so life can sustain.  Obviously a vital skill when…

Why does Manchild exist?  The last thing any of us need is another reason to stare at screens to distract ourselves from our lives we aren’t happy with.  We started Manchild on a hunch.  Maybe there are a bunch of…