Many grow up in single parent families with only a mother. Others have a dad, but he is either uninvolved or never there. I kind of fit into both categories. I never lacked anything as a kid, though, because of my wonderful grandpa. In my case Grandpa taught me all the important stuff.
Every boy just has to know how to hit a baseball and shoot a bow and arrow.
Sports, to little boys are just about the most important things in life. If you throw like a girl, that's just about the most humiliating thing a little guy could go through at five or six years of age. Grandpa made sure I could throw and bat a ball like an old pro by the time I went to school. Grandpa Cutler was born in 1895. I came along late in my parents' marriage.