Boyhood Resurrected Quotes

“energy isn’t necessarily disobedience”
― Rebekah Lovell, Boyhood Resurrected: Igniting a Revival of Daring and Heroic Boys

“Don’t underestimate how powerful reading together can be for your family, and the transforming effects it can have on your boy. Encouraging your kids to be critical thinkers doesn’t stop at discussing current events only. Getting lost in a good epic unlocks real discussion about what happened to characters, how they evolved, and what that means for us in our lives. Their imagination kicks in, too; it’s not just a good skill for small children. Imagination is useful our whole lives, and story keeps it alive.”
― Rebekah Lovell, Boyhood Resurrected: Igniting a Revival of Daring and Heroic Boys

“Not all the best investments for your child come with a shiny trophy or awards like a sports team may offer. It can be as simple as making reading a big deal.”
― Rebekah Lovell, Boyhood Resurrected: Igniting a Revival of Daring and Heroic Boys

“But otherwise, there’s no real behind. “Well, I feel like my child is behind.” Behind whom? Behind what? Know that if you’re putting in the daily, faithful work, your child will get it when they’re ready. Sometimes we parents are the ones in a hurry, and our kids just aren’t ready yet. They will be, and in their time, they will thrive.”
― Rebekah Lovell, Boyhood Resurrected: Igniting a Revival of Daring and Heroic Boys

“Susan S. Macaulay says, “Parents need to evaluate their priorities. They need to consider why they respond, ‘We wouldn’t have time to read a book together every day. We don’t have time to hike/ camp/paint/talk with our children.’ What is really important? The sacred career? Educational institutions make poor substitute mothers, fathers, and homes. There has never been a generation when children have so desperately needed their parents’ time, thoughtful creativity, and friendship.”3”
― Rebekah Lovell, Boyhood Resurrected: Igniting a Revival of Daring and Heroic Boys

“Your son is not safe from the insanity, and neither is mine. But we can unite as friends of boyhood to take back what’s been stolen for years now. How many kids start out with bright eyes and big backpacks, only to end up disenchanted, discouraged, belittled, and at best, stunted just a few short years later in traditional school systems? Just the other day, a mom said to me, “Don’t let their flame go out,” since boys often reach puberty and hit a wall or crisis. It doesn’t have to be this way. Boys can continue to be challenged and led well through the teen years and have thriving lives honoring their masculine callings. There is hope for our sons.”
― Rebekah Lovell, Boyhood Resurrected: Igniting a Revival of Daring and Heroic Boys

“The 2024 Summer Olympics in France held games in which a male boxer fought a female opponent. It wasn’t brave or heroic for a man to pretend to be a woman and fight against a woman in Olympic boxing. Instead, a mentally deranged person was celebrated for canceling out what the feminists were trying to achieve. In pursuit of their ultimate freedom, feminists imagined women could be the best at absolutely everything imaginable. Boys under their charge and care saw this and decided that being a woman was the only way to succeed. Now, men are beating women at their own sports. Feminism has failed, and will always fail when it tries to cancel out the male gender in favor of its own.”
― Rebekah Lovell, Boyhood Resurrected: Igniting a Revival of Daring and Heroic Boys

“Government schooling does not have your child’s best interests in mind. This institution is designed to produce students who: - Follow a system without asking questions. - Memorize information for tests, but come out unskilled and generally uneducated. - Assimilate into the “real world” of work and factory-produced mass ideology, accepting mainstream ideology as fact. God did not create our children to fill the role the state and society prescribed for them based on industrialized living and Marxist ideology, which is increasingly the ideology of educational institutions. Our children were created to be who they’re supposed to be as individuals. Sitting at a desk eight hours a day, medicated so they’ll sit still and “be good,” is not the way to foster health and real learning––especially for boys.”
― Rebekah Lovell, Boyhood Resurrected: Igniting a Revival of Daring and Heroic Boys

“It takes a village to raise a child” has grievously overstepped its boundaries. I’d like to think this phrase was correct and valuable back when cultural norms were prevalent, generally everyone agreed on right and wrong, and evil was a bit more closeted. Now, the days are so dark and evil; gender and sexuality have worked their way into tiny children’s classrooms, vaccines by Big Pharma are being marketed heavily at doctors’ offices, media is divisive and deceitful, technology attempts to corrupt the youngest among us with porn exposure younger than ever before, and sex offenders lurk everywhere. I do not want the village raising my child.”
― Rebekah Lovell, Boyhood Resurrected: Igniting a Revival of Daring and Heroic Boys

“The hurry and rush seem to begin in preschool, even before age three. Every August, I see smiling “school pictures” of tiny boys whose backpacks are bigger than they are, dressed and ready to leave home on their trek to academic success, merely two or three years out of the womb. At this age, no matter the program, this is not school; it is daycare. From this young, tender age, the rush begins and remains until high school, when transcripts are submitted for college, even though males have been the minority gender at university for more than four decades now.3 They even underperform compared to their sisters at the same schools because of their apathy, and end up in their parents’ basements.”
― Rebekah Lovell, Boyhood Resurrected: Igniting a Revival of Daring and Heroic Boys

“They don’t know what’s “cool” to seventh graders right now. But they know how to drive vehicles and how to take care of farm animals. They don’t know about gender fluidity or critical race theory, but they can talk for hours about World War II, ancient Rome, and the Greek Empire. They can grow food, worship God, patch a skinned knee, cherish books, and have meaningful conversations with peers and adults alike.”
― Rebekah Lovell, Boyhood Resurrected: Igniting a Revival of Daring and Heroic Boys