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Teaching Love -- Jeffrey Sippy, Springfield Dad-in-Training |
|  Love is not easy and teaching Love is harder yet. We all have something to say about Love. We all have an idea of what Love is. Love is the most dominant theme of music, poetry, fiction and cinema. But Love is not easy.
I recently watched a love story called The Notebook. The Notebook is a 2004 American Romance based on the book of the same title and starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. The movie captured me. I smiled. I cried. I wanted the love the movie portrayed for myself. When the movie was over I Googled it. I wanted to know more about the characters, the actors, and what the critics had to say. The movie was a box office hit with teenagers and young adults but the critics dismantled it as unrealistic and sentimental. What did this mean? Do young people have an idealized--even romanticized--notion of what Love might be, but the older and wiser among us dismantle any attempts and modeling or proclaiming it?
I want my boys to be great lovers in every way. When they marry I want their wives to fight with each other about who got the best of the Sippy boys. I want little old ladies to marvel at my boys for being polite and thoughtful gentleman. I want their employers to think of them as conscientious men who put the needs of others before their own.
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