I posted this in my Facebook Dad’s Group, The Brotherhood of Dads. I wonder how it will go over. I am a fan of radical personal responsibility. However, not everyone is. Don’t like your boss? Don’t like your marriage? Kids annoying you? I’d like you to think about the possibility that you are part creator…
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Getting help and improving on your parenting is hard to do. This is why: 1. 👉 Self examination is a sensitive and tender thing. It is hard to look at blind spots. We’ve kept them blind for a reason. We don’t like to look at them. It is uncomfortable to highlight areas in need of…
To the parents who have spent time examining and improving themselves in order to provide the best of themselves to their kids, I honor you and thank you. For me, my challenge was to become more patient and positive. Examining oneself is not easy, especially with regard to parenting. It’s sensitive business to be looking…
1. Believe in Goodness. Is your child good or bad? What is her true nature? What is your perspective? How do you view your child when things get challenging? Is she trying to make your life hard or is she having a hard time? Loving leaders assume the best of their children. This doesn’t mean…
There is a leap of faith to be made. It’s edgy. The leap is this. Kids don’t need much pushing. If from an early age children were given choice, autonomy and support in pursuing their interests, their natural level of initiative and motivation will be really healthy and present, perhaps more so than children who…
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I have to warn you of something. Be wary of the toxic cocktail. It breeds power struggles and disconnection. This is what it is: too much helping of a child followed by blaming and shaming a child. It makes it really difficult for a child to want to attempt things on their own. It plays…
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Parents often say that getting their kids to listen to them is their top challenge. It was my top challenge too. Something that helped me was to look at leadership. After-all, parenting is leadership. And truth be told, there are better leaders than others. There are leaders who are respected, listened to, and celebrated. There…
I used to think my children should do whatever I said whenever I said it. I had more power than them and wanted them to respect it or at least be fearful of it. Secretly, I also wanted the satisfaction of being able to control them. It felt satisfying in some way to wield power.…
Do you have a strong willed, sensitive and intelligent child? These powerful little people want to take on the world and do things on their own terms. This can be challenging. At their core these children want to feel, taste and breathe life. They want experience it. However, they want their own experience of it. Good…
The Brotherhood of Dads is a Free Facebook Community to support and encourage Dads in becoming the best they can be. Parenting is the most important job in the world. What we do and how we do it has such and important impact on the live of our children. If you are a Dad who…
