Here's a book recommendation for you, JA.
Boy Training, introduced by Ernest Thompson (Chief Scout, Boy Scouts of America), edited by John L. Alexander, (Secretary, Boy Scouts of America). Associated Press, 124 E. 28th Street, NY, NY and London, 47 Paternoster Row, E.C., 1911.
Old words lost but still ring true. Too bad it's out of print - it would really, really help today's parents - yours, I suspect. If you think that's an unfair shot, so be it and then go look into your own mirror. You've never had any compunctions about taking a swipe at me.
An aside - one of the contributors was G. Walter Fiske of Oberlin College. I don't seek out old books or autographs, but my copy that I purchased in a bag of old texts in a public library sale was from his library and has his signature. Serendipity. I'll pass it on to someone else.
As you may know, Oberlin is noted for it's then unheard-of 1830's admissions of blacks and women. Da*n those Presbyterians, eh?...