Jackie Phan

“Contrary to some fathers’ fears of creating a “crybaby” by coddling an emotional son, a father who accepts and assists his son in distress helps him grow stronger emotionally. These are fathers who know that, as Mark Twain wrote: “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” These are fathers who will gently help their sons with the hard tasks of growing up rather than try to harden or toughen the boys to match a tough world. In our work with boys, we find that the ones who are most prone to break down when the going gets tough are those who have been raised with the idea that to admit vulnerability, even to themselves”
― Dan Kindlon, Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys