Sleuth Detectives~Making Memories With Our Sons

In our series called "Making Memories With Our Sons", it is important to create opportunities and participate in manly activities as a family. This encourages development of masculine sons with the same fervant support of femininity for daughters. Boys love detective type play and we thought it would be great fun to take our son to a "Sleuth Dinner Show". We want our son to enjoy being a boy and though he loves the lessons learned by Mr. Knightly and Mr. Roger Hamley of Jane Austin's Era, he equally enjoys rolling up his sleeves and digging deeper in other wholesome genre's too. This is part of being a balanced boy and I love supporting anything that makes him all he is to be as a complete man.

In addition, we love his cowboy hats, roughing it in the mountains in his Daniel Boone getup and anything outdoorsy.

The "Art of Play" makes the man

How we direct our boys needs to be well thought out and carefully considered. First and foremost is to teach our sons to love God's word, hiding scripture deep within their hearts and embrace the principles that will bless their lives and future families. One concern I have had regarding the training of ones son, is how many young men learn their academia but miss the important aspect that brings a boy into full manhood. If we look to scripture we see the "David's" and "Solomon's" of the bible were not just sitting with tablets in hand. These were boys who loved God and spent time in the fields learning what real manhood was all about. They were strong, ruddy young men with qualities of balance both internally and externally. Look at your boys, see if they need to get out into the fresh air for some body building, tree climbing and tree felling skills. Mothers, ask yourself if your sons are being developed in equal proportion with their mind, body and spirit?

If sons grow up with only computers, television and couch potato training, they will never understand the world of a well balanced man. They need to get out, work in wholesome masculine building skills and develop creative problem solving abilities. I believe it was the famous Captain Cook who said he learned all he needed to know in leading men in battles by what he played in his own back yard.

This particular video was from a recent trip down South. Our son has been studying logic in his home-education and this game really made it fun for him. As we travel, we want our son to experience what he is reading and have a hands on education. We took a cross country train trip and the practical, experiential knowledge our son gained was invaluable. This particular evening was a pure delight as we played a deductive reasoning "Live Clue Game". For those of you who enjoy board games, this was great fun figuring out "Who done it!".

All the characters came to life and our son was asked to play a cameo role in the entertainment. This was his first acting debut with his new friend Jordan from Texas. These two had a wonderful time together on stage and their gypsy presence enthralled the audience. These two young men threw us off kilter as we tried to figure out the suspects. Samuel and Jordan were the

"Sleuth Detectives!"