If you’ve been following encouragingdad.com for a while you’ll understand that the title question doesn’t mean what is your occupation, or can you sculpt a coffee table with your bare hands… so when I ask the question what kind of man are you, the operative word is: KIND. What type? what sort? what characteristics […]
Month: May 2018
How to Teach Your Son to Be “The Man!”
When teaching your boys, they respond far better to instructions and guidelines, accompanied by consistent modeling, than they do to back-door reprimands because they are not measuring up to the expectation you have of what a man should be. I encourage you to proactively show them how to achieve what you expect, and then guide […]
How I Became “The Man!”
When I think about the time that I learned what it means to be a man, I remember driving down Randall Road, between Cary and Elgin, Illinois, in my Blue 1998 Ford Explorer Wagon listening to a cassette tape series of an audio book and taking notes on a small hand-held note pad with a […]
Teach Your Child to Work
Work… that’s a four letter word! Is that how you see it? Is that how your children see it …because that’s how you see it? …or because they see you work without expecting them to? I have heard this said by men who seem to say it “tongue in cheek”… and often the man saying […]
Campfires + Boys = Good Combination
It is utterly amazing what sitting around a campfire does for your soul! Last weekend I watched boys ranging from age 5 to 16 sit together, relatively still, around a campfire two nights in a row with no agenda and simply enjoy the tranquility and chaos of a campfire! It was a beautiful time, as […]