Teaching boys involves becoming a better boy yourself:

Walk in the mud with no shoes Walk anywhere with no shoes Fly a kite Hide in the bushes Ambush your children Challenge your boy to a foot race

Skip Honk and wave at perfect strangers By a kazoo and learn to play it Do something you've been warned not to do Learn a magic trick Teach yourself to juggle

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping or seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you'll get better results if you just watch him laugh.  If he laughs well, he is a good man.


TOUCHLESS WAYS TO TOUCH:

Stare at him without a word Wear some cologne that he likes Make him smell something you smell Put a surprise somewhere and tell him where to find it Put a worm in his bed Put a friendly note in his lunch box Name a tree after him Ask his opinion Make him a special meal Glare at him Repeat his exact words after he speaks Imitate him Build him something with your hands Put a post-it note on his toothbrush

Put out a totally mismatched set of clothes for him Read a story to him Put a place card at his place at the dinner table Put stones in his shoes and deny any knowledge Put a "Welcome Home" banner on the house after school Make up a song about him and sing it to him Say a poem with his name in it Draw a picture of you and your son doing something fun Unplug the TV and tell him you are the entertainment for the night Split a large bag of M&M's with him right before dinner Take him to work for the day Give him an autographed picture of you Write messages on the windows with dry-erase markers Put messages on trees along the path to school Drop all you are doing and listen to him