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Admit your own fears, and your kids will trust you to help them deal with theirs.

While there are many attributes that a “good friend” will have, there is one that is critical.

A lack of envy.

Agamemnon gives a clarifying speech about so-called friends.

Gravitas means you have weight. People tend to conflate it with somberness and over-seriousness, but the men who have the most gravitas usually have an equal amount of charisma.

But true fathers have gravitas. They have a weight that attracts and influences. If you want to have influence on your children, and on others around you (including young men who are looking for good models of fatherhood), then you need to cultivate and promote your own gravitas.

Good fathers are good husbands.

How you treat your wife will be mimicked by your boys and expected by your girls.

At a minimum, this means you should stay married. It is one of the most important things you can do as a father.

Nate Dean is the co-founder of Unlimited Life Concepts. He does financial coaching and mentoring, helping people build up wealth while they start to erase their bad debt.

I consider myself pretty good with finances, but Nate has taught me some things that completely blew my mind.

• How to be your own bank


• Leveraging loans that you make to yourself


• Making every dollar that comes in earn you more money


• Grow your wealth tax-free, without an IRA

You don't want to miss this one.

*None of the info in this podcast should be considered financial advice.

You aren’t owed respect. You have to earn it.

If you want to be treated like a man, you have to act like a man. This means taking on responsibility without grumbling or complaining.

If not kept in check, envy will destroy relationships.

It can also twist a person’s affections beyond recognition, making them chase things they don’t even care about.

Here are 4 ways to kill envy.

If you have sons but only one daughter, you can inadvertently cause her to beg for your attention. Even if it is an accident, you are responsible.

Don’t start relating to your daughter as if she is one of your sons. This can lead to resentment and insecurity. Be intentional about relating to her as your daughter.

Here's how.

We get a lot of things backward. With children, we must move from strict to permissive. Not permissive to strict.

When your child becomes a teenager, you want to start giving them more freedom and more responsibility. You want them to start exercising more self-control.