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and give your seat to the lady standing…
I’ve seen many courteous men and boys. I’ve equally seen, and sadly seen more often, the opposite.

I’m training my boys to understand that ladies must be first. Ladies first! It’s terrible when my 18-year-old son understands this concept, but a 70-year-old man in the grocery store doesn’t.

Boys need to understand the concept of ladies first in order to be become real men. They need to pause to let a lady pass, they need to open doors, they need to let their sisters go first. They should be the first to lug heavy items for any mother, or get a ladder to dust off high shelves. They need to humble themselves to do the “dirtier” work in the home; clean the vacuum container, fix the screens, clean the fireplace, take out the trash, kill that nasty spider (they can scream, at least they did it.) Ladies first.

Let me say that a man will not be a man if he is not given the opportunity to know he was made to lead, protect, go last, and serve as a gentleman. Ladies first.

I promise that if you teach your boys this easy concept of “ladies first”, it will be like a flood gate opening to let the real man stand up in your boys and open a path to integrity. Ladies first.

On a personal note, if we don’t expect this, be prepared for women to overrun our men. Be prepared for less men to lead and more women to want charge. I could go on.. and on.

Blessings, Theresa