Being a Good Father to Your Children

Date: 10:47 am | Placed in Kids and Teens |

To explain what I feel a good father should be, I must first point out some negative things and hope that they will not only alarm you who are reading this text but also give you a better idea of what we are up against. To that end it is that I will unveil the negative trends and portrayals of fathers we’ve seen through the years.

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One could argue that the alarmists have focused blame on what’s wrong with our youth and pointed to the parental figures in the home as the culprits, in many cases. Yes, this has been done many times in various parts of the world and during a great many different time periods.

Today we could ask almost anyone on the street what a good father is really like, and unless we were speaking to the very few individuals who seem to think that we need a strong family leader, the answers would probably be somewhat shocking. They might tell us that the father is the one who usually tried to get the sympathy of the other family members and especially the attention of his wife. He may do this with some type of childish action or even some form of hypochondriac procedure. This I imagine has been drilled into our population by the one-eyed monster, we call television, that graces most all our homes.

I digress, as television can only be held responsible to an extent. The liberalization of our society has perverted the idea of leadership and strength, lampooning it to the point that we’ve been softened as a society, as most people avoid the lead role. Very seldom do we see a person who is reflecting real, strong, positive leadership ability being elected to a public office. This goes for the father image as well. The off-base implication is that if strong-charactered, God-fearing heads of households appear in real life or on the big screen, we will come to the conclusion that he is going to damage his childrens’ psyche with his powerful personality and not allow them to have individualistic and expressive qualities the rest of their lives.

I can’t refute this claim boldly enough! Conversely to this assumption, leadership is ONLY passed along through example. Unfortunately, there seems to be no one to perpetuate this image as we have lost almost all of our examples as fatherly leadership is concerned. How is a young man to know what a real man is if he grows up with a weak father? He may see dad refusing many responsibilities and neglect his family in many other ways, only for the good mother to be left to do it all.

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I am sure that at this time you are wondering if I am ever going to get around to telling you what I think a good father is. Surely by describing what a bad father lacks, gives many clues as to what a good father is. The good father is the antithesis of the weak and poor father. I would much rather see a strong-character, righteous man walk by his children, and in doing so, observe them somewhat flinching as they became fearful that he might just swat them, then see the reaction of most children to their father today. Call me old fashioned, but that fearful respect for the father is representative of being accountable for the child’s actions, recognizing that the good father represents values.

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A good father should do some of the things that we commonly picture a father doing. That is, play ball with his son, take him fishing, have a close father daughter relationship with his girls, and all in all, be a kind and sympathetic person. He should do all these things, yes, but he must first and foremost be the family leader. He takes helm of leading the household; providing guidance and direction through the storms the family faces as the years go by.

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