I don't know why this bothered me so much, but this really irked me. My son (9 months) and I were at a Lego discovery center yesterday. He was playing in a part where there are these big foam Lego bricks. His favorite game (as was my older son's at this age) is to wait for me to build a tower and then knock it down.

Another family comes with a boy about 8 or 9. He proceeds to build walls and, you guessed it, smash through them and slam the foam bricks down while roaring. My first thought was that looks fun. But of course, who I'm assuming is mom, quickly tells him to stop and be careful of the baby and yada yada...even though he was on the complete opposite side of the room.

Even when I said he was fine and dropped a couple bricks on my babies head to make him laugh and built walls for him to crawl through she STILL was trying to get him to, basically, play like a girl calmly.

It just made me so grateful for my wife who lets my boys be boys. They are rough and tumble and rowdy and boisterous and aggressive to the point of my older son regularly initiating wrestling time with a punch to my gut. We have taught him to be more gentle with Mommy and other kids, but thank God he can just be a boy!

I feel bad for all these children of women who can't handle boy energy. It makes me think of how I was made out to be a "bad" kid when I was little just because I wasn't like my older sisters. We are ruining our boys and society in general by producing these weak men who have constantly held back their potential in order to fit into a gentle, emasculated mold.