A Sobering Warning for Fathers - Don't Raise Sons Who Sit Like This
Hey dudes. The recent news about Rob Reiner and his wife being killed, and their son now charged, should shake every father to his core. Not as entertainment. Not as internet drama. But as a warning of how badly things can go when the household collapses. Scripture is clear that children can be a blessing or a curse. Psalm 127 calls sons arrows in the hand of a warrior. Arrows don’t raise themselves. They are shaped, aimed, disciplined, and released with intention. As entrepreneurs, our first responsibility is not our company — it’s our home economy. The word economy comes from oikonomos, or economos in the Latin, meaning “house law”. Our work life is only one part of that economy. What else is included? The household ethos. The shared values. What older generations called the commonwealth — what society knows as “culture.” A strong business with a weak household is not a success. A profitable life that produces resentful, undisciplined, unanchored sons is failure. When fathers abdicate their role - when provision replaces presence, when discipline disappears, when formation is outsourced, the household breaks down. And broken households don’t produce arrows. They produce chaos. Our job is to raise sons who are a blessing to the household. - Sons who are tough. - Sons who understand legacy. - Sons who can control their emotions. - Sons who know restraint, honour, and responsibility. We build businesses, yes. But first, we build men. We don’t want to raise sons that sit like this. ⤵️