Bryan Willmert

You are always proud of your own kids. The moment that you realize that they are making decisions on their own, you can often feel nervous about the decisions that they are making. We have recently been extremely impressed with our kids and what they are doing. We showed them a video from our church where they are challenging people to spend a little less on ourselves this christmas and take that money to give it to those in need.

We shared this video (see it above) and they made their own decisions on where to send some of the money that would normally be spent on them. We were proud of them for their decisions, but they were not done yet. Our middle daughter set a goal to raise more money than just her Christmas money, but to pull in her friends. She has set the goal to raise $200 to give fresh, clean water to the Pokot people of Kenya.

She is collecting money from her friends who want to help, and when they do, she gives them some duct tape bracelets that she made. It is truly awesome to see people rally around her. Her teacher gave her money today and her principle said that she would be helping out too. And of course, her family is jumping on board, but I’d like to ask you all to help her get to her goal. On the right side of this blog you can see a widget that will give you the chance to give. If you can that is awesome, but if you can’t it isn’t a big deal but I always carry the mentality of “you never know unless you ask”.

Here is the widget as well!

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Have you noticed a decrease in men being manly? I mean you have the version that thinks they are manly, but rather they’d be the more selfish version who focuses on the Gym, Tanning, and Laundry every morning. Are men becoming less outright in their chivalry or are we seeing a generation of guys who are either totally passive or the complete opposite side of the spectrum where they have no regard for anyone but themselves? These are my precursor thoughts to this subject before we see todays TED Talk of the day by Philip Zimbardo.

Here is one more thought to this.

How have women played into the position of where men are at today? Granted it means that men shaped their paths by the acceptance of women. Think of the “nice guy” who turns to a jerk because he keeps finding girls who like the jerks. I was in a small group setting one time talking about this type of subjet and some ladies, who might read this, and we were talking about the role of a husband and wife. The ladies wanted their guys to be more aggressive and to take the lead. My question, because of what I saw all too often, was that if he did take the lead, would you actually allow him to lead or jump in and make corrections.

Those were just a few more thoughts on that subject! What do you think?

Women.. What do you want a guy to be like?

Men.. what is it that makes us passive at times?