This five-part series examines five fundamental, yet absolutely critical, fatherhood concepts. This is not an all-inclusive list, but it represents counterpoints to five of the most severely damaging mistakes made by fathers today.
If you want to emulate someone, you learn about them. You learn their behaviors, their attitudes, their way of talking to people. You learn about who they are.
So it stands to reason that, in order to be a good father, we would emulate the father.
Through the Bible, God gives us a blueprint for being a solid father. He starts early, and demonstrates often.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
The Influence Vacuum
It's ten o'clock: do you know where your children are?
It's possible the first time that or a similar statement was spoken was in the classic Scottish tale of Wee Willie Winkie. It's possible it was Irv Weinstein, once the news director of WKBW in Buffalo, New York. But it's not who said it that matters; it is what is being said. And it may be the most important question you ever have to answer for your kids, regardless of the time.
Ask yourself this: when is the last time you can truly say you influenced your children? Was it this morning at the breakfast table? Last night, shooting hoops in the driveway? A week ago before Sunday school?
The sad reality is that many parents can't answer that question, and many don't care. Many parents today are content to allow the school system, friends, friends' parents, even television to have more influence over their kids than they do themselves. More often than not, it is the father who lacks the ambition to sway his kids' hearts. That is because men today have been stripped of a few critical things that grant that ambition in the first place. And it is resulting in what I call the Influence Vacuum.
It's possible the first time that or a similar statement was spoken was in the classic Scottish tale of Wee Willie Winkie. It's possible it was Irv Weinstein, once the news director of WKBW in Buffalo, New York. But it's not who said it that matters; it is what is being said. And it may be the most important question you ever have to answer for your kids, regardless of the time.
Ask yourself this: when is the last time you can truly say you influenced your children? Was it this morning at the breakfast table? Last night, shooting hoops in the driveway? A week ago before Sunday school?
The sad reality is that many parents can't answer that question, and many don't care. Many parents today are content to allow the school system, friends, friends' parents, even television to have more influence over their kids than they do themselves. More often than not, it is the father who lacks the ambition to sway his kids' hearts. That is because men today have been stripped of a few critical things that grant that ambition in the first place. And it is resulting in what I call the Influence Vacuum.
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