5 Lessons I Wish I Would Have Learned Before Becoming a Dad | The Dad Edge Live Q&A With Larry Hagner
May 29, 2024
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Larry Hagner, host of the Dad Edge Mastermind, shares insights on work-life balance, handling tough emotions, and building stronger relationships with kids in this interactive Q&A session. Listen in for actionable strategies to level up your fatherhood game.
Building a strong connection with our kids enhances influence and guidance.
Prioritizing marriage sets examples for healthy relationships and communication.
Patience is a crucial skill for fathers, tied to emotional regulation and resilience.
Deep dives
Building Connection with Kids for Stronger Influence
Building a strong connection with our kids forms the foundation for stronger influence. When kids feel connected, they value our guidance and opinions, making our influence more impactful. By engaging kids with deep questions and entering their world, we enhance this connection, fostering a relationship where they genuinely listen and value our input.
Prioritizing Marriage to Set a Positive Example
Prioritizing our marriage is crucial as kids observe and learn from the relationship dynamic. By prioritizing our marriage, we demonstrate healthy communication, connection, and teamwork to our children, laying the groundwork for their understanding of successful relationships. Making our spouse a top priority positively impacts family dynamics and creates a sense of safety and security for our children.
Developing Patience as a Fundamental Skill
Patience is a vital skill for fathers, encompassing external and internal components. Managing external stressors and internal dialogue influences our responses to challenging situations with our kids and family. Understanding that patience is a skill tied to emotional regulation and resilience allows for growth and improvement in handling parenting challenges.
Enhancing Relationships Through Meaningful Conversations
Quality conversations with kids involve avoiding mundane questions and embracing curiosity and creativity. Engaging children in meaningful dialogues through thought-provoking or fun questions fosters deeper connections and elevates interactions. By steering away from routine inquiries and focusing on engaging conversations, fathers can nurture stronger relationships with their children.
Embracing Mistakes as Opportunities for Growth
Mistakes are part of parenting, offering opportunities to demonstrate humility, apologize, and seek forgiveness. Owning up to errors, apologizing, and requesting forgiveness from children showcases valuable life lessons on accountability and humility. Embracing mistakes as learning experiences helps fathers model self-awareness, resilience, and the importance of taking responsibility within the family dynamic.
Larry Hagner hosts members of the Dad Edge Mastermind in this behind-the-scenes episode. This is an opportunity for members to ask Larry and the community their most pressing questions and get tailored insights from experienced dads.
From work-life balance to dealing with tough emotions and building stronger relationships with our kids, this episode is packed with actionable insights and practical strategies to help you become the best dad you can be.
Sit back, listen in and get ready to level up your fatherhood game.
