When your child becomes a strong reader they become a stronger student and perhaps a stronger person. What can you do to help your child with reading? What can YOU read as a dad that will help you become Dad of the Year this year?

Your child spends a lot of their time in school. With their peers. Dads play a huge role in their child’s education. What are ways that you can help your child learn and learn more about your child? School and friends have a big influence on your child but not as much influence as you have as their dad.

What drives your heart? What are your standards and your world view? how do you pass that on to your children? How do you help your children develop their own faith and outlook?

Families need rituals. Do you want your child to remember the one cool thing you did when you hit a home run as a dad or do you want your child to remember how you always got up to bat?

What kind of adult do you want your child to become? What kind of relationship do you want to have with your adult child? What kind of grandparent do you want to be?

Most kids do not remember the great presents we got them. They always remember the BAD gifts we got them. However, kids always remember the good times. Work on being the great dad that can be so many things instead of the really good one thing.

As dads we make lots of mistakes, but they are ALL in the past. What kind of dad do you want to be NOW? What kind of Dad do you want to be in the FUTURE?

It is one thing to set goals for the year but we know how hard it is to be consistent. “Eat Kale three times per week” is harder to maintain than Eat fewer hamburgers”. What do you RESOLVE to do this year? Once you determine that, then your goals and resolutions will make more sense.