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    Something for My Son
    Something for My Son
    Something for My Son
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    Something for My Son

    By William Robinson

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    Many times fathers never get the chance to pass on wisdom that was passed on to them. Whether it be because of death, divorce or just distance. This book is what fathers should cover to pass on to their sons.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateDec 17, 2012
    ISBN9781300533801
    Something for My Son
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    William Robinson

    William Robinson (1838–1935) emigrated from Ireland at a young age and was rapidly welcomed into the top echelons of British horticulture and botany. By 1866 he was a Fellow in the Linnean Society, sponsored by his friend Charles Darwin. Already an expert on the flora of the British Isles, he traveled the breadth of North America by train in 1870, observing regional habitats and forging lasting connections with Charles Sargent, Asa Gray, Frederick Law Olmsted, and others of their stature. Robinson was just thirty-two when he first published The Wild Garden, which has proved to be the most insightful, influential, and enduring of his many books and journals. Robinson's brilliance and enormous personal energy enabled him to become one of the most accomplished gardeners, editors, and publishers of his era, and he is often referred to as the Father of the English Flower Garden. Gravetye Manor, a sixteenth-century house which survives on over one-thousand acres in West Sussex, became his home and laboratory for developing and refining the wild garden concept.

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      Something for My Son - William Robinson

      Something for My Son

      Something for My Son

      Copyright 2012 William Robinson.

      All Rights reserved

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a

      retrieval system or transmitted by any means without the

      written permission of the author.

      Printed in the United States of America

      ISBN 978-1-300-53380-1

      For All the Son’s.  I can only hope that the life you live is worthy of you.

      Dedicated to

      TJ, Dominic, Dareus, Julien, Tyris, and Christopher

      Introduction

      We as fathers live through the successes of our children, especially our sons.  Our sons allow us to be the men that we never were and they allow us to be better than ourselves.  Our sons are our future; they carry the bloodline so we expect them to be everything, all the best parts of us.

      We don’t have to be as protective of our sons as we do our daughters.  With our sons we encourage them to be manly men, ignore pain and go for the gusto.  When our sons have female conquest we applaud them and when our daughters do the same we are disappointed.

      There is a double standard and it has been a double standard since the beginning of time.

      This book is for my sons because I may not be around to teach them everything that they need to learn to be good, successful men.

      Fathers should teach some things to our sons.  The ones I feel that are important are as follows:

      1.  Family is forever – Without your family, life can be harder to manage.  Family is not just people who have your genetic DNA; family includes those people that you include in your inner circle,  people who have your back in hard times,  people who are there for you when you are celebrating your victories and no matter your faults they accept you.

      2.  You are ok just the way you are – When people are born, they are born with gifts, some people are good looking, some are super intelligent, and some are kind. No matter who you are, each person is given a gift. 

      If you choose not to use your gift because it is not the one you want that is your fault.  Most men want to be good looking because they believe that if they are handsome women will want them, people will like them, and men will envy them.  Problem is that every man is handsome because it is not on the outside.  Let me explain.  There are men in the world who were not born with good looks.  They were born with a sense of confidence that allows them to talk their way into and out of almost every situation.

      These men get the same amount of women as the good-looking people and not just the same quality but also the same quantity.

      3.  You are capable of anything – Someone once told me the first step in reaching your dreams is to wake up.  You can be or do anything in your life that you want to do.  If you have the brains and you network well you can go straight to the top.  Notice I mentioned network well.  It’s because it is not what you know it is who you know that will help you get ahead in life.  What you know may help you stick around for a while but who you know will help you progress.  Be nice to the people as you move up in your life because they will remember that when you start to move down in your life

      4.  People should treat you with respect – Respect is not given, respect is earned.  You will not get respect because of whom you are but in how you treat others.  No matter whom you meet, you should give them the benefit of the doubt and treat them how you want to be treated because you never know who people will turn out to be but people always remember who treated them with respect.

      5.  Not to drink too much and to stay away from drugs – I never did drink nor do drugs.  It was a personal choice.  I would love for you to follow the same path.  I always viewed people who smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol or did drugs as weaker than those who didn’t.  Someone once said that you should never have habits unless you can afford them.  I am in agreement.  When I was younger I used to ask myself what was the purpose of doing drugs? I mean you smoke, you get high, you come down and you smoke again. It’s a continuous circle.  So before you do anything just ask yourself, why am I doing it? If you don’t have a good answer, don’t do it.

      6.  Your father will always defend you – As a father it is my sworn lifelong commitment to protect you from harm. Even when you are in the wrong we are there.  We will sometimes be over protective to the point of smothering but do not take it personal,

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