Being a godly father requires much perseverance and prayer as we seek God's guidance in being the types of fathers He wants us to be.
With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things
I could speak to you and say, 'Laytay-chai, paisey, paisey. '. . . Why aren't you responding? Oh, you don't speak Swahili. Well, I've got news for you. The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.
Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'
When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.
Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.
You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.
Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.
Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.