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| 479b7d5 | If you allow all of your negative emotions to be expressed behind an angry facade, you will never know yourself. You will never know your potential because it will be blocked by anger. Anger solves very little, but keeps in a lot. You strike out at others when you have been hit. Anger needs to be released if appropriate, but more importantly, it needs to be resolved. As a silent son, where do you stand today? Do you know what you stand for .. | Robert J. Ackerman | ||
| b0856e9 | According to Robert Bly, poet and author of Iron John, for a boy to become a man he must be taught by older men who have an interest in the boy.2 A boy needs a mentor--it could be his father, uncle, neighbor, teacher, or close friend. A true mentor is not only interested in teaching the boy the ways of men, he is also interested in the boy's "soul." Many silent sons lacked a father who was capable of being a mentor. Their souls have never h.. | Robert J. Ackerman |