The Dad Whisperer Podcast

Dad, if your daughter’s tone ever makes you want to match it, this one is for you.

At the NRB conference I sat down with Jill Garner, founder of Manners of the Heart, a nonprofit focused on reawakening respect in our society for the sake of the next generation. Her books, including Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World and Raising Unselfish Children in a Self-Absorbed World, have sold over 100,000 copies, and her most recent is Strong Heart: Cultivating Humility, Respect, and Resiliency in Your Child.

Jill’s starting point: manners isn’t a set of rules. It’s “an attitude of the heart.” From there we get practical: the difference between punishment and discipline, why “let’s back up a minute” gives a daughter a do-over without shaming her who, what to do when she’s rising up at a seven or an eight, and why self-respect and self-esteem are, in Jill’s words, “two absolutely polar opposites.”

Jill also gives dads her GRIT acronym, and her go step is the one she gave us early on: be the man you want your daughter to marry.

On your mark… get set… go.

0:36 Welcome and On Your Mark

1:38 Meet Jill Garner

3:16 Where the passion began

3:58 Manners is an attitude of the heart

5:24 When Dad gets triggered by disrespect

7:07 Punishment vs. discipline

8:14 Breaking the generational pattern

12:39 Be the man she’d want to marry

14:10 Teach it, or model it?

16:24 The great pause

17:51 When she says no

21:37 Break

22:48 Welcome back

23:11 Self-respect vs. self-esteem

26:27 The home of respect

28:25 GRIT

29:16 The go step

30:25 Where to find Jill

30:46 Sign-off

00:00 — Open

00:36 — Welcome, and the grid: on your mark, get set, go

01:45 — Meet Dr. Zach Wagner

04:10 — On your mark: Cultivating Character That Counts — what “virtue” means

06:25 — The nine fruit of the Spirit

08:13 — Start with the heart

13:02 — “God likes you” — the delighting love underneath everything

17:25 — Perfecting love, accepting love, delighting love

22:25 — Welcome back — peace, and men and anger

24:25 — Peace is not passivity

25:31 — The shoes in the doorway: patience and gentleness in real time

30:31 — After you’ve raised your voice — “will you forgive me?”

31:24 — Kindness: entering her suffering

34:06 — The stolen bike

35:58 — The who-what-when-where-why-how grid for empathy

37:37 — Go: pick one fruit and work it for a week

40:07 — Where to find Zach

41:00 — Sign-off, and a new way to partner with The Dad Whisperer

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