How to Win Your Child’s Heart
There are many things we can do to win our child’s heart. Over the years, I’ve made it a practice to write special notes to each of my children. It’s important to verbally affirm and encourage our children, but I’ve found that the written word is powerful too. [Tweet This] And, it’s something they can keep and look at when they need encouragement and affirmation. One note I wrote to each of our children when they were younger was a note expressing my unconditional love for them and to validate their wonderful gifts. Here are three things I included in those notes.
What Do Dads Really Want for Father’s Day?
What most dads really want for Father’s Day is to be their child’s hero…to know that his kids look up to him…admire and respect him. So, how can kids, and even adult children, show that to dad? Well, here are a few ideas. Grab the camcorder, iPhone or anything with video capabilities and video yourself […]
Great Leader, Great Father
Frank had a small place in Sharon Township, North Carolina. It was a dairy farm, but it wasn’t much of a living. His children often remember him with a sun-browned face, walking out onto the hot, dusty path back to the farmhouse. In the 1929 stock market crash, he lost his entire life savings — […]
Serving and Service
Alfred Roberts was a small-town shopkeeper. He managed the grocery store in a place called Grantham. For his daughter, Margaret, he was a fount of wisdom and knowledge, even though he had little formal education. She remembers fondly a time when she wanted to go out and hang around with friends rather than do her […]
10 Ways to Know You are Being a Good Father
Most men want to be good dads. But we struggle sometimes with how to practically make that happen. So, here are some things I just jotted down that may help us on our fatherhood journey. 10 Ways to know you are being a good father: 1. When your calendar is full of things to do […]
The Duty of Fatherhood
Behind a successful person we often find the legacy of a loving father. We may not know their names. Some are shopkeepers or farmers or shoe salesmen. Nothing these men did in their jobs made them famous. But what they did as fathers changed the course of history. This week, as we celebrate and honor […]
A Father’s Legacy
Dads, have you thought about your legacy lately? In case you haven’t, let’s start with the basics: Webster’s Dictionary says a legacy is “something handed down from one who has gone before.” Fathers, we will eventually be that “one who has gone before”—the leaver of the legacy. How we live will influence our children and […]
Life in the Real World
Well, the “Graduation Season” is upon us. It’s an exciting time for some parents but a concerning time for other parents. Why? Because some kids coming out of school are lacking direction. Susan and I tackle this tough subject today – how to prepare our kids for the “real world.”
What’s she thinking about?
Well, today’s Family Minute was about communication within the marriage. And, to the men out there, if you’ve been married for any length of time, then you know just how important it is to know how your wife thinks. The truth is that each and every one of us is unique; each of us thinks […]
