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2 Ways to Mess Your Kids up
Episode 15624th May 2023 • The Thriving Man Podcast • David Maxwell
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Our role as dads is one of the biggest roles we have as men. All men influence like a dad when they mentor others. So in a way, every man acts like a dad at some point in their life.

Dads are one of the most influential factors in their kids' lives and in society as a whole. The relationship with our fathers sets us up for many of the ways we will live our lives.

If you are a dad, you have an incredible amount of influence on your kids. This isn't meant to scare you, it is meant to challenge you.

The challenge is to live as a good influence. That means making choices that help your kids develop as whole and healthy adults. To do this you have to watch out for 2 attitudes that will mess your kids up: Selfishness and Hypocrisy.

Selfishness

  • All of us have a tendency to selfishness
  • Kids often help us to overcome this
  • As men, we can hold onto the attitude "It's all about me!"
  • Me Centered Parenting
  • Me-centered parenting focuses more on us than our children
  • This is selfish because we are telling our kids that our reputation is the most important thing for them to think about
  • Healthy dads work to train their kids to own and take responsibility for their own reputation
  • Blame Parenting
  • Blame parenting is the Dad who always talks about what could have been
  • The other side is the "I was "all that" before I got married"
  • Kids don't care what you were before you had them
  • They want you to be something now for them
  • Ignore Parenting
  • Ignore parenting isn't an obvious style that men take part it
  • How we lie to ourselves and our kids is by saying things like,  "I'm doing this for you...."
  • Kids want their dads more than anything else
  • We shouldn't accept a life of ignoring our family while saying we are working for them

Hypocrisy

  • Hypocrisy for us as men is when our saying and our doing are different
  • Outward Hypocrisy
  • We all have a bit of outward hypocrisy in all of us
  • Outward hypocrisy is another angle of image management
  • Outward hypocrisy is about teaching  our kids to protect our reputation, rather than engage with authentic living
  • Family Hypocrisy
  • Family hypocrisy is when we expect things from our kids that we don't do
  • Putting members of the family down in front of others or behind their back
  • Not taking responsibility for our actions
  • Inward Hypocrisy
  • Inward hypocrisy is often the hardest to deal with because it usually involves our own shame
  • Kids will figure it out

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