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Fatherly Advice – Lip Ointment

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Advice from a Father to his children in hopes they will make their life all that it can be.  This week I advise my children to use lip ointment.

Okay… so it's not always earth shattering advice, sometimes what is important is simply taking care of yourself.  My poor baby has chapped lips as the season goes from hot spring to hot summer.  The advice is simple, take care of your body and it won't fail you as much.  In this case, use lip ointment to make up for how dry it is.

Wishing you always the best!

Some People Would Pay for This!

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It's not the excited clamor that makes the concert shine with interest, it's the comments whispered between one child to another that bring out the gold of youth.

"Some people would pay money for this!"  One child excitedly exclaimed in a hushed but anxiously whispered tone to those sitting around him.  

Something like Parenting Advice – Grumpy

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As a Father of four, I've learned a LOT over the years, some of the things I've learned the hard way, hopefully I can help you learn things the easy way.

Last week I talked about the need to pause, this week I want to talk about why kids are often Grumpy.

​Babies are easy… well almost easy, they are either tired, hungry, or gassy (physical pain/discomfort).  Turns out children are pretty similar, if they're grumpy they're either tired, hungry or gassy.  Irony is that adults are pretty much the same.  If I'm grumpy I can attribute it to one of the same root causes.

My advice for this week is simple, if the kids are grumpy, check into the basics.

Good luck ;)

 

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Fatherly Advice – Learn

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Advice from a Father to his children in hopes that they will make their life all that it can be.  This week I advise my children to learn everything they can.

Learn, always.  There are a lot of people who just get older with the passage of time, but more valuable by far are those who keep their eyes open as the clock keeps on ticking.  The difference is that as you grow older you can learn from your mistakes, learn from the mistakes of others, and learn about the mysteries of life.

My Father has always been the kind to keep his mind open to learning new things constantly.  I dare say there isn't a day of his life where he hasn't gone to bed knowing something that he didn't know before.  This is great because I can always go to him for advice or ideas and he has encountered or experienced something related to what I'm thinking about.  This is a gift that I would give to my children, that they can go through life with their eyes open to learning the mysteries, wonders, and strange things the world has to offer.

Wishing you always the best!

Something Like Parenting Advice – Pause

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As a Father of four, I've learned a LOT over the years, some of the things I've learned the hard way, hopefully I can help you learn things the easy way.

Last week I talked about how little people are not big people, this week I want to talk about the need to ​pause.

​We are stalked by time, it slips from our grips, and every moment is precious.  Many years from now you'll look back and wish to have this time back.  With that in mind, I suggest occasionally taking a moment and capturing this moment in time.   

​This is more than being afraid that time will pass you by, this is also being willing to hit pause to take time out for the things that are really important.

I have had an opportunity to watch parents in action of all types, the children run to them, one situation is that the parent is too busy watching tv and tells the child to buzz off; the child is disappointed, walks away dejected.  The other, the parent pushes pause, or just shuts off the show and takes time to listen to what the child is saying as if learning about the different kind of my little ponies is the most important thing to them at that time in the world.

​Perhaps being told to buzz off doesn't negatively affect the child who didn't have anything 'super important' to share… but which parent would you rather be in that situation?

​My advice for this week is to be able to push pause on what isn't important to focus on what is… cherish that moment because it slips by too quickly.