A Single Sentence from a Season Ahead
There is a reason that movies romanticize puzzles around the fire and playing catch in the backyard. They are the small moments that add up in a growing family.
The GuaranteeOne weekend this summer I found myself at the lake with some young dads. It was the kind of weekend where the conversation was rich and the fun overflowed. As we sat around in the living room, the topic of conversation steered towards raising kids. Some of it was about the challenges of kids entering middle school and others about adding a second kid to the family. One of the young dads asked me what it was like raising a son versus a daughter. Sure there are a ton of differences, but I wanted to answer his question in a super simple and tangible way. So I gave him my hands & hearts model for raising sons and daughters. Simple parenting concepts are never totally universal, but this one is close. If you start doing this when your kids are young, you should never stop. It will shift a bit over the years, but the practice never runs out of impact. Truthfully we've kept it going all the way into young adulthood and don't plan quitting. Moms and Dads can both do this and it'll look different, which is good. Here is a major difference in raising your sons versus your daughters... Sons need your hands.
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Helping propel moms & dads of 3 to 13 year-olds to invest in their power-decade of parenting. Father of 3 teenagers and pastor of 20 years turned digital writer.
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