Challenges
Dads enjoy challenges and obstacles. They take them head-on. Can we just start with a bunch of Winston Churchill quotes? “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in […]
Don’t Enable Bad Behavior, Shut It Down
Don’t enable bad behavior, shut it down. I see the enabling of bad behavior almost everywhere I go. I see parents turning a blind eye, making threats and not following through. I see grown adults not held accountable for their actions. I see excuses everywhere. Everyone has an excuse, everyone is making excuses for other […]
Creating a Home Filled with Love, Pride and Discipline.
Dads, create a home. A nice, safe, warm, loving, comfortable home filled with love, pride, and discipline. Dads come from all sorts of backgrounds. Bad homes, no homes, great homes, okay homes. Each has his own perspective on what he liked and did not like about his past. Some way or another he has created […]
Idleness
We are not and will not become complacent, lazy, or ignorant. No Idleness. To pick up off the hard work post, the one thing I never want to model for my boys is idleness, being lazy, or complacent because I don’t want my boys to grow up to be sloths, to be complacent or even […]