Ways to be a Present Dad in a Healthy Relationship

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• 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.

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