Being a great dad means focusing on your inside

How you dad starts with how you live as a man

Bring Our Backpack

• To be a great dad who leads his family a man has to learn how to lead himself
• Men have to decide that they are taking responsibility for their family
• Bring your backpack means you are coming to your role as a dad with the right tools and attitude
• Tools
• Your tools are the things you are growing in
• As you grow and develop as a man you get more tools in the backpack for your relationships
• Your tools are a key part of being a great dad, but no one else can get them for you
• Attitude
• It's an ALL IN attitude - Being a dad gets all of you
• Your kids will sense when they are a bother to you
• Investing in kids is seeing them and knowing them
• Spoiling is lazy dad activity

Brush Our Teeth

• Each man is responsible for their own teeth
• You have to take responsibility for your own life
• Many guys are walking around carrying baggage from their life
• Your problems will grow and affect your family if you don't deal with them
• You must approach these areas with a relentless determination
• The thing you can't or won't overcome is the thing that is hurting your ability to be a great dad

Be Ourselves

• Men can be similar but they aren't the same
• JUST BE YOU
• Be secure in who you are as a man
• Secure Men make the best dads because of what they do
• Secure men can change
• Secure men can connect
• Secure men raise secure children
• Kids see past your pretending to be perfect
• You don't have to share everything with your kids, but they need to see your authentic self
• Kids want a secure dad who is working to grow and learn