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I joined 3 other fathers in a study of Robert Lewis’ Raising a Modern-Day Knight: A Father’s Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood and the corresponding DVD training series a few months back. This is the second group of dads I have been involved with like this. I wrote the post Epic Fathering in February of last year in an effort to describe our intentions with these groups and what we are trying to accomplish in the lives of our sons. The first group still meets every Thursday morning at IHOP during the school year and we have seen very encouraging things happening among our young men.

Since I started the first group 3 years ago, my youngest son Gabe has been asking when we were going to get things started for him and his buddies. We were finally able to coordinate our schedules last Friday night and held the first of four ceremonies that we will do before he leaves our home for good. In this particular ceremony, we pledged to being intentional, strategic fathers and sought to drive a stake in the ground for our boys. Gabe is now 12 and it was so amazing to be able to provide a definite starting point to his transition into manhood.

Here are a few shots from the ceremony. We didn’t get any shots of the 9 or 10 enormous bass we caught beforehand and the great swim in the lake afterwards.

Men, what “coming of age” memories do you have from growing up? How has that impacted you as an adult?

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@strategicdad

Awesome, I've been doing a Passage ceremony for my sons (actually, for my daughter also) for a few years now. 3 boys and I girl down with 3 to go! Keep up the great work bro'

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Traylor Lovvorn

Thanks and you do the same!

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