Somehow I Father

Hey kids, how about we do a homeschool project and you guys can organize your legos?  Do you like your legos?  Do you want to keep your legos?  Can you see where this is going?  What should have been a great learning/homeschool task, turned into a disaster.  But in that disaster, some hard lessons were learned.  Many emotions were felt and they were mostly from me.... 

So often I find myself getting upset at my children for acting a certain way.   In reality, I too, have these emotions and act them out, but in a "grown-up" sort of way.  In this podcast, I unpack some of those raw emotional feelings and share how I deal with them.   It's a great lesson in having empathy for our children, instead of scolding them about being in the wrong.  As Jesus said (and I'm paraphrasing) "Don't point out the speck in someone's eye when in fact you have a plank in yours".

Hello everyone!  In this episode, I talk about the importance of self-care and the struggle I am having with it.  I think as Men, Husbands, Fathers we can get caught up in serving our family or trying to meet their needs, but it is also important to take care of our needs.  So that we can be mentally and physically healthy to be able to meet the needs of our families.

Like the world, you have suddenly found your self or your spouse homeschooling your kids.  Are they driving you crazy?  Is the pressure to much to keep up with the school curriculum?  Are you doing enough?  Well, I have 5 tips from an amazing Homeschooling mom that I believe can help give perspective at this time.  

We are officially in unknown waters.  COVID-19 is a worldwide pandemic and the question is "How are you leading your family". In this episode, I share some pitfalls I have run into and what I am doing to better Lead, my Family.  

How as men are we to be leading our families?  What is the deal with self-sacrifice?  Is it healthy or not?  In this episode, I talk about the role or men and our duty to our families.

Anxiety has been a HUGE topic lately, it seems more and more people are having it.  Men these days are being overcome with anxiety and having no real way to deal with it or even feel open enough to communicate about it.  Anxiety is close to me as I have walked with my wife through it, and in this journey, I met Pastor Phil Moreno who was also going through anxiety.  I think this episode is as important as ever because as men it can be hard to process our feelings or even admit to having anxiety.  Through his openness about it, I was able to have a better understanding of it and was able to come alongside my wife and support her knowing it was more then what I thought I perceived it to be.

I took my son with me to get an oil change, and what happened was beyond magical.  Hear all about it and what I learned from something that could have been boring and had no impact on my son.