Episode 36 - Review and Summary of Raising Men by Eric Davis

Today I am excited to review this book on Raising Men, that was put together by a decorated Navy Seal Eric Davis who served our country and has been recognized as one of the premier sniper instructors in the U.S. military and has served as a Master Training Specialist at the SEAL sniper school in Coronado, CA.

Since departing from the SEAL teams, Eric has worked in corporate performance, sales and leadership training bringing an unprecedented amount of innovation, efficiency, and structure to the domain of business and personal performance.

And he now brings us powerful anecdotes from his days as a seal and how he has applied those lessons into his parenting life which we can learn from and apply in our parenting styles.

He doesn’t say, this is what we should do, but he shares his and others' experience and expertise and invites us to consider them as part of our parenting strategies.

Before we begin, I would like to read you an excerpt from the back cover of this book

Eric says.

"Fatherhood is not for the weak. Its a long game fought in the trenches, and in order to lead our children through the arduous and sometimes dangerous routes of childhood, we have to knuckle down and man up.

We must have expectations not only of our children, but of ourselves, and take on every challenge as if their lives and ours depended on it, because they often do."

This book read like a Father’s how to guide in raising children. So Lets dive in and get some of the key takeaways from this amazing book.

Allow me to leave you with this.

Ultimately, we want our kids to lead a happy, healthy and sucessful lives. Unconditional love is great as part of our parenting, but is only a part of successful parenting. If we just let our kids do what ever they think is right, because that is what we believe unconditional love to be, then we are doing them a great disservice as parents. Because we may not be training them, but someone or something else will, wether its the Internet, what they see in others, games etc.

If we want to pull all the lessons together from this book. from leading from the front to growing, we need to be fully invested in the success of our children so we can both become a contributing member of the community that need our help.

Important Tenets To teach our sons to produce mental toughness

Respect

Responsibility

Communication

Honor

Perserverance

Innovation

Courage

Confidence

All of these are like a muscle that we can develop in us and our kids.