When a child grows up without a strong father figure, he has to learn discipline on his own.

Children who grow up in hostile environments learn this fast.

Children who grow up in relatively safe environments don't.

When he has to learn discipline on his own the outcome is always sub-par, unless he gets himself into situations where thorough discipline is his only way out (alive).

"If you don't deliver the cash by the end of the week, you're dead. Now go sell that dope boy!"

He has no choice but to learn:

- Timeliness
- Punctuality
- Grit
- And how to interact with people

What we call "street smarts."

In reality it's just a thorough way of living, where a person has to step up to it or die (in the streets).

That's why when these kids - from the street - are pitched against the home grown ones who have been protected from the outside world all their lives, the street kids win.

Be it in the corporate world, artistic, music industry, politics, you name it.

They develop the necessary qualities for success and are therefore miles ahead of the homeboy.

It is the job of the father of the homeboy to teach him these lessons.

Take him:

- camping
- hunting
- hiking
- swimming
- mountaineering

Teach him:

- to fight
- eat right
- work out
- deal with addictions

Show him discipline, grit, focus, and be all those things as an example of whom to follow.

If your kid grows up in the streets, he will either learn these things or he might not make it out alive.

If your kid grows up in a safe environment (with you present) you must teach him what is necessary.

Give him the advantage his environment deprives him.

These lifelong skills and lessons will show him how cruel and cold the world is.

The bond you too will share while learning will show him that true brotherhood exists.

Two important lessons for every man to learn.

When he grows up with his mother alone (single mother) he can neither learn these lessons, nor can she teach them to him.

She herself does not know the importance of them.

Instead what he learns is to be overly emotional, develops a fluky nature and double standards, and most times carries a victim mentality on his shoulders wherever he goes.

He picks these up from a broken woman.

He has absolutely no grit, and no discipline whatsoever.

These are the sort of boys that grow up to watch porn, and also write articles online on the health benefits of masturbating once a day.

PS.

They preach equality of the sexes because they can't see the difference between a man and a woman.

Men who've survived life threatening circumstances don't have to be told, they know a woman can never be equal to a man.

You don't even have to teach them that.

If you're a kid that grew up without a strong father figure, know that you're not alone.

The world may have broken you in ways know one knows, whether the streets scarred you, or the comfort of the home killed the animal in you.

It's up to you to make the choice today to change for good and never come back.

It's hard, but once you start on the journey you will find its doable. You have the power to change your life.

Let this be the wake up call you've been waiting for.

Let this be the sign for you to change your life for the better.

Time to step up to the plate and be a man of character and discipline.

For the street boy has discipline but not character, while the homeboy lacks both.

Goodluck!