A mother can have a great impact on what makes a young man tick. Hannah Spenner, a mental health writer, says a mother influences a person's attachment style, their emotional regulation, empathy, cognitive development and social skills. There is the helicopter mom, the cool mom, the crunchy mom, the workout mom, the absent mom, the zen mom to name a few according to a google search about mom types. How a mom impacts a son might be different than how a mom impacts a daughter.

Regrets, I’ve had a few but then again too few to mention. I did what I had to do………. And I did it my way, Frank Sinatra sang in the 1969 song, My Way. Set to the music of the 1967 French tune, Comme d'habitude, My Way climbed to number 2 on America's Easy Listening Tunes and topped the chart in the UK for weeks on end. It was popularized, no doubt, because the lyrics, clear, clean, and contemplative struck a chord. In fact, in 1969 and today, Regret is something most people

“Give me a sturdy lad from Vermont or New Hampshire, who has tried it all,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his 1841 essay on resilience, “who teams it, farms it, peddles it, preaches, keeps a school, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township in that order, and always like a cat falls on his feet.” “This lad” Emerson said, “is worth a hundred of these city dolls,who want quick enterprise right out of school.This hearty lad walks abreast in his days, no shame for not s