Having three sons, I was reading an article which piqued my interest called Wimps and Barbarians yesterday. My worst fear is my sons becoming either barbarians or wimps. My aim in homeschooling them has always been to bring them up as real men whom I will truly be proud of. I found myself agreeing with many points the author made on how today's boys have an appalling lack of male leadership combined with our societies tolerance of males who disrespect women and dishonouring men with thumos. Reading this also caused me to pause as I then wondered... what of my daughter? She is but a year old yet I have already started to prepare for her adolescence and teen years. My dream is that she may leave the fold a virtuous and discerning woman who will be able to make the right choice for a husband despite society's pressures to give away her virtue in the guise of protection through an out-of-marriage attachment. If you have a daughter, the accompaniment to the above article is Heather's Compromise.