DA415 | Your Superpower Is Hurting Your Kids, Creating Emotional Warmth at Home, and Why Attachment Is Everything – Part 1 (Jeremy Pryor)

Jan 1, 2026

Jeremy Pryor, founder of Family Teams and an expert in multi-generational family dynamics, delivers a powerful message for fathers. He discusses the dangers of emotional detachment, emphasizing that while it may help in providing, it can alienate kids. Pryor highlights the need for fathers to create emotional warmth at home and shares insights from ancient Hebraic family practices that can guide modern parenting. He urges dads to engage with their children emotionally, showing them they truly care, and stresses the value of listening to their wives' insights on family dynamics.

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INSIGHT

Modern Default Destroys Families

If you “go with the flow” in our culture, the default trajectory will destroy your family.
Men must intentionally fight cultural drift to protect multi-generational health.

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Ancient Hebraic Family Strengths

Hebraic family patterns preserved multi-generational stories and identity through genealogy and ritual.
Those practices created stronger long-term family cohesion than modern individualism.

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Detachment Is A Double-Edged Superpower

Men have a superpower to emotionally detach which helps provide and protect in crises.
Using that superpower to stay distant at home costs fathers their children's hearts.

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🚨 If you just go with the flow, it will destroy your family.

Jeremy Pryor is BACK on the podcast with a wake-up call for dads everywhere. In Part 1 of this powerful conversation, he's sharing:

➡️ Why your ability to emotionally detach is hurting your kids

➡️ The difference between "Do I love my kids?" and "Do they FEEL loved?"

➡️ How to become a warmer, more emotionally available father

➡️ What ancient Hebraic families understood that we've forgotten

SUMMARY

If you just go with the flow in today's world, it will destroy you and your family. In this episode, Jeremy Pryor returns to share why the superpower that helps men provide and protect can actually be the very thing that pushes your kids away. You'll discover why emotional detachment is hurting your children and how to become the warm, present father your family desperately needs.

TAKEAWAYS

The ability to emotionally detach is a fatherhood superpower for providing and protecting—but using it against your family will cost you their hearts.
Your kids can sense emotional distance, and they need to know that what happens to them actually impacts you.
The question isn't "Do I feel attached to my kids?" but "Do my kids feel attached to me?"
Learning from ancient Hebraic family culture can revolutionize the way we build multi-generational bonds.
Your wife has a relational map of the family that you desperately need—invite her advice and steward it well.

GUEST

Jeremy Pryor is the founder of Family Teams and co-host of the Family Teams Podcast with Jefferson Bethke. He's an author, speaker, and advocate for multi-generational family who has spent years studying ancient Hebraic family patterns and helping modern fathers build lasting legacies. Jeremy and his wife, April, have five children and four grandchildren and lived in Israel on and off for about ten years.

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