Raising Children January 27, 2025 7 min read

My 3 sons are Gen Alpha

My 3 sons are Gen Alpha. Therefore, I have a big investment in your generation’s success. I want my boys to grow up surrounded by strong and beautiful peers. I want success to become the default for their generation.

Your life is going to be a tragedy or a heroic epic. You get to decide.

Crying about your pain isn’t going to make it feel any better.

It may not be your fault, but it is your responsibility to deal with it.

Stop worrying about the future; it’s not helping.

If you act like a little bitch, you will stay a little bitch no matter how big, tall, and strong you grow up to be.

Yes, everything is stacked against you, and life is unfair. You are not wrong about that. It should make you angry.

Stop whining. Start planning your revenge.

The best revenge is to live a full and exciting life that others envy.

Start a gang.

But don’t call it a gang.

Call it something innocent, like a study group.

Boys only. Girls and gender weirdos are not going to help you grow up into men.

Have each other’s back. Protect each other. Speak only the truth to each other. Be loyal, and do not have a fallout over stupid little things.

Challenge each other to constantly improve and hold each other accountable.

Over time, make a constitution for your gang. Study pirate constitutions for ideas.

Have strict standards. Exclude boys that don’t measure up. The more exclusive your gang, the more value belonging to it has, and the more people will want to join you. Avoid growing at the cost of lowering the quality.

Do interesting things as a gang. Build stuff. Help your people. Make yourselves valuable and well liked by the good people in your community. And feared by bad.

Learn how to fight.

Kickboxing, boxing, BJJ, and wrestling—all excellent stuff.

If you can find someone to teach you, learn how to shoot and operate both handguns and rifles.

Don’t spare hard; you are going to wipe out too many brain cells that you will need later.

Take a fight or two in your later teens.

Women love men that can protect them.

Avoid women that get you into fights.

Lift weights.

Don’t be a skinny pencil neck or a fat slob.

Take this seriously and get someone to teach you how to do the major lifts.

Build a gym at one of your gang’s houses if possible.

Exercise for fitness, not to set records.

Eat to thrive.

You are what you eat. Eat LOTS of healthy food. You need to grow.

Eat what makes you get big and strong; taste is secondary.

Fast at least once per year. Better every 3 months for 3 days. Do it with your gang as a part of a ritual of loyalty. It will make you stronger.

Respect yourself.

Dress appropriately to your age, but in a way that commands respect.

Clean clothes and shoes, good hygiene, avoid stupid trends and dumb haircuts.

Stand up straight, chest out, chin up, look people in the eye, give a powerful handshake, and speak proper English. People are judging your behavior.

Have fun, but cultivate the ability to be serious when it matters.

NEVER talk down to yourself, not even in your head.

Buy a dog and train it.

Get a proper guardian breed of dog, like a German Shepherd or a Malinois, from a good breeder. Pay for it and feed it with your own money.

Train it to be a protection dog.

Buy some dog training books, talk to professional dog trainers, take this seriously, or somebody is going to get hurt.

Option: Do it as a project with your gang. This might help if parents are uncooperative. At least one of your guys parents will say yes.

If you don’t have a father, find one.

You need male role models. Men you can look up to.

Uncles, older cousins, etc. Family is best. You might have family you don’t even know about. Ask.

Be cautious; not every adult male is a good father and role model. Make sure prospective role models know you have lots of loyal friends and protectors.

As you grow up, build an internalized father by asking, “What would I tell my son to do if I were the best father to myself?” when faced with decisions.

Learn an instrument.

The discipline and mindfulness that learning an instrument brings will prove useful to you later in life.

Everyone loves live music.

Get some scars.

Take risks. Do bold things. Get hurt. Don’t die.

You will learn a lot from your failures.

A man with no scars from his youth never really lived.

Read the best books of western literature.

Not just the works of fiction, but also historical records.

For best results exclude anything not written by a white man before 1950.

Here is a short starting list:

The Odyssey by Homer (8th century BCE)

Herodotus’ The Histories (c. 430 BCE)

Plato’s Republic (c. 375 BCE)

Aristotle’s Ethics (c. 340 BCE)

Plutarch’s Lives (c. 100 CE)

St. Augustine’s Confessions (c. 397 CE)

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1320)

Montaigne’s Essays (1580)

Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1600)

Machiavelli’s The Prince (1532)

The Constitution of the United States (1787)

The Declaration of Independence (1776)

Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)

Cervantes’ Don Quixote (1605–1615)

Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866)

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)

Yes, you are still a kid. Yes, it’s going to be challenging to read these books. Do hard things to make your brain strong.

Go to church.

Even if you don’t believe anything.

Even if you will never believe in anything.

There is power in the ritual and traditions of the church.

There is power in the brotherhood of a church.

Not all churches are equal. Visit the “rainbow” churches from time to time to see how far from anything divine and wholesome a church can fall.

As you get older and better networked with your gang, you can consider taking over a church for your own purposes.

Use AI for everything.

Learn how to use AI to save you time and effort on boring, repetitive tasks.

If you use it right, not even your teachers will be able to tell.

If your teachers notice that your writing looks like AI, you suck at writing prompts. Get good.

Ask AI to help you plan out your ideas. The process of putting your desires into simple asks that work for AI will create mindfulness and structure your thinking.

Curate your “official” social media.

Curate your official social media accounts, imagining that you have to show them to all future employers and your grandma, so save the epic trolling for boys talk with your gang.

Post things that make you look “good” and “normal.”. Don’t show your power levels online. Things might be good now, but they could change in 4 years.

Life offline is better than life online. Get out of your basement. See other humans in real life.

Learn a manual skill.

Learn how to break and fix things and people.

Build a chair, knock down a block wall, patch a wound, sew a button back on a jacket, wire a light socket, etc.

Manual skills give you real power in the real world.

Start making money now.

Find ways to make money.

Make and sell things.

Do odd jobs.

Make and lose money now when you don’t need it to pay bills.

Work with your gang on making money. Options open up with there is more of you.

About women.

If you grow up to become a man, women become an easy problem to solve.

If you stay immature, women will be impossible for you.

Most women like men and hate males. A male is an immature adult “man.”.

Your dick will get you into trouble if you don’t keep it under control.

Best to avoid anything that’s going to get you into a commitment until you are old enough for that commitment.

Conclusion

That’s what’s on the top of my head for part 1.

If you are a parent of a Gen Alpha boy, please ask me questions below about these or other topics and I will answer you.

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