Maritus recently discovered a website called Vision Forum and asked me to take a look at it. We later spent about 2 hours going through all of the fantastic toys (especially for boys) trying to decide what we wanted to get for the kids. The first category for boys is Weapons and Gear. This site is amazing and they have toys for sale that, in the past, we have both said “I wish they would make a toy like this”; swords for boys that actually won’t break within 5 minutes, guns, bows and arrows and costumes. For girls there are tea sets, doll dresses, sewing kits and romp around rough toys.
While we were searching around we came across another project that the founder of Vision Forums, Doug Phillips, has begun. It’s called Hazardous Journeys Society. It’s a new venture that has been started and there isn’t very much information on it yet. On the site are three videos. I will let them speak for themselves . . .
Dominion
Risk
Manhood
I’ll tell you that by the end of the third I was crying. I truly hope that we succeed in giving this to our son.
Those videos are very cool, I wish they had some I could show my daughters. They appreciated the princess-y doll clothes though. I liked that site and may have to go back for some curriculum stuff. We’re studying dinosaurs currently and I found some dinosaur fruit snacks, they aren’t allowed to eat them until they can tell me the name of it.
I wish they had some girl videos as well. Check out the books section over there. I believe they have videos and books on CD as well. I bought a book from their called Queen of the Home and I can’t wait to read it. I just re-read the foreward and and I going to paste it into my latest post.
Here is the description of the book:
In past generations, the role of wife and mother was viewed as a sacred calling. The committed homemaker was seen as strong, capable, intelligent, and irreplaceable. She was regarded not only as a crucial part of the home, but as a foundational bulwark of society. She was considered worthy of great honor, appreciation, and respect. Though in recent years feminists have sought to demean this glorious calling, the Bible’s hopeful vision of noble womanhood is one worth reclaiming. Queen of the Home seeks to cast that vision afresh through godly encouragements from writers past and present. This inspiring collection of essays, poetry, and poignant vignettes paints a beautiful picture of what it means for a wife to be a crown to her husband, the monarch of the cradle, and queen of the home, and calls upon daughters to embrace their rewarding role and sacred calling as regal women of God.
Vision Forum has many excellent resources. We have all the Jonathan Park story CDs and I highly recommend them. My children like to listen to them at bed time.
SSM,
I checked into those after your recommendation at Alpha Game. They sound excellent, but their going to have to wait till the next order. We had a really difficult time not buying up the store. I’ve never been so impressed with children’s products.
Thank-you. I wrote a post about Raising Alpha. A while ago. Where to start and this popped up on my reader. Brilliant
Great stuff! Since its a forum I guess it should be possible to leave some manosphere links there.
Wudang,
It’s called a forum, but really it’s an online store. I wondered myself why it was called forum.
scarlettbetty,
Feel free to leave links to any of your posts here.
I’m glad you liked the videos.
Excellent set of short films. Nothing feminism does can eradicate that spirit completely. We just have to re-present it to the next generation of boys, and they’ll do the rest.
i posted the other day about this subject calling it “the pussification of american men”.
i don’t generate a lot of comments, but that one saw serious traffic.
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