Episode 21: Ways to be a Present Dad in a Healthy Relationship

Season #3

  • Topic 1: The roles a with a healthy relationship can play
    • Any relationship takes clear communications. It is hard to have a relationship without fair mind set.
    • You must be around to begin the process of open conversations.
    • You must be present and being around.  
    • We watched kids that we really liked and found the parents did.
    • Advise that was given: Do not rush any part of life, embraces each stage of life. Because once that stage is gone it is gone.
    • The brain is like concrete as it gets molded as you grow.
    • Roles that fathers can play within their families: Provider, Leader, Teacher – discipline, Encourager, Accountability, Helper, Friend, & Counselor.
    • There has been research that shows a correlation between higher levels of sociability, confidence, and self-control in children who have fathers that are actively involved.
  • Topic 2: Why should a father be a part of day-to-day life.
    • Sometimes it is just checking in with children throughout the day.
    • The involvement with each stage of children’s life.
    • It is all about being present.
  • Topic 3: Why should you travel as a family?
    • Travel is about getting to go and see what other areas have and don’t have.
  • Topic 4: Why are books important?
    • Starting before the children are born as they are unborn until the moment children can pick a book up themselves. Reading together with your children.
    • Made the time to read as a bedtime. Sometimes you have to just do it.   
    • Why did you find it important to read as families.
    • Book that was given as a change of life my (Tom Stackhouse) life - Hand Me Another Brick   
    • Leadership books: Hand Me Another Brick and Lincoln on Leadership
    • Children’s Book Series: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Books that are series like Chronical of Narnia – getting a good healthy fancy, Red Wall.
  • What’s the biggest key for parenting you have received and practices over the years?
    • Enjoying each stage. Not wishing away a stage of life.
    • Find the times you are able to be present with your children.
  • Recap:
      • The roles a with a healthy relationship can play.
      • The way fathers can be involved day to day.
      • The importance of traveling.
      • The importance of books and reading.

 

  • Call to action: Know your child and you get to know that by being present. Help them to become brave individuals.
    • Be present.