The Real Dad Rules - The Everyday Steps, Secrets, and Satisfactions of Being a Real Dad, Every Day

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Every child deserves a real dad. And every dad has the power and ability to be one. It just takes dedication, hard work, the occasional bout of humility, practice, a lot of laughing, and time. It doesn't matter where a dad starts in his journey. It doesn't matter what kind of past he has had or what mistakes have been made along the way.

It doesn't matter what he is struggling with most. What matters is that he starts. What matters is that he is working on it. What matters is that he gives it his all. The Real Dad Rules is a must read by every father, no matter how far along he is in his own parenting journey. With special bonus chapters dedicated to single dads and stepdads, every father will find extremely useful and logical tools that he can use all along the way.

Being a dad should be exciting. It should be fun. It should keep you on your toes. And, it should be the most fulfilling of all life's accomplishments. Real dads do it all, and they have a blast while they do. Kindle Edition , pages. Published first published May 9th To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Real Dad Rules , please sign up.

Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jan 27, Nicole Shelby rated it really liked it. My friend shared with me Dan Pearce's blog: I've found it heartfelt, humorous, sweet, honest, intelligent It is not often that I read a blog where I want to share every article I read with everyone I know When I realized that he'd written a book I immediately went to Amazon and bought it for my Kindle. Now, I'm "currently reading" it They understand that minutes turn into hours, hours turn into days, and days turn into years.

They understand that they're only given so much time to give their child a real chance at a spectacular and fulfilling life, and they don't squander that time looking for missed opportunity. I've yet to meet the parent of a grown child who didn't recount the speed at which their child came, grew-up, and was gone. They all tell me the same thing. Where it ends up is nowhere near as important as how it ends up. Real dads don't work on the "when".

Real dads work on the "hows". Imagine how beautiful the lives are of those fathers, and their children, who are able to truly comprehend and live by that single directive. It's not always a simple directive to live. It's the single most powerful mandate to real parenting that ironically take the least amount of effort to achieve. It's worry that takes effort. It's perfectly plotting out the future you think you'll have that takes effort. Letting life happen takes no effort at all. So quit wasting it on the uncontrollable and really enjoy those eighteen or so years that you have with your child Maybe, in fact, life will find your son's or your daughter's natural, hidden, and secret talents, aptitudes, and capacities, and it will put beautiful things in place for both of you that you couldn't have planned if you tried.

The greatest gift you'll give to the world is your child. The greatest gift you'll give to your child is the opportunity to let life shape the best parts of him. The greatest gift you'll give to yourself is freedom from what you can't control. And the greatest gift your child will give you is a life free from resentment and full of gratitude for your ability to do it.

Those eighteen years are ours for the making just as much as they are ours for the breaking. Mar 10, Thomas Nelson rated it it was amazing. This is one of the simplest books written on such a complicated subject. It doesn't dive off the deep end of how to parent or drown the reader in statistics but gives simple no nonsense guides to improve fatherhood. I'm reading it for the second time and the worst thing I can say about the book is it ends.

Second, your time, and your life belong to her until she is off to college. Your goals, hobbies and career take 2nd place.

The Real Dad Rules: The Everyday Steps, Secrets, and Satisfactions of Being a Real Dad, Every Day

When your life is at its completion you will not regret missed overtime, a lower golf score, watching the game. You will regret having missed her birthday, first soccer game or first date. You always love her. It is not dependent on her ability in sports, her grades or her social standing. You accept that she is imperfect. You do not keep holding on to past failures. But, mistakes have consequences.

And some mistakes have much bigger consequences. It is not your job to take her consequences. She won't learn if you do. Your job is not to be her friend.

You are her parent. It is okay for her to not like you at times. Although it sucks at the time. Finally, don't sweat the small stuff. And most of it is small stuff. Being a dad to daughters can be frustrating, painful, tiring and sometimes heartbreaking. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Read any and all of the books written by Berry Brazelton. Some of them may be out of print and a bit dated, but they are the best books I've come across about parenting, and I've read a lot of them. Since he has been the Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus at Harvard, and his illustrious resume is longer than I could write here without getting carpal tunnel in both hands. He has 3 daughters. Read some Brene Brown, and some books from John Gottman.

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Figure out how to be enough, and model that in your life for your kids. You couldn't do better than that. I don't know a book to recommend, but be nice to your wife. Girls marry a guy like their father, and if you are a bum, they will choose a bum. Nobody could wish that life for their daughter. Related Questions How do I become a good father to my daughter? What should a month old baby wear for his first time at the beach? A baby bathing suit, a diaper or nothing? After giving Colicaid drops to my day-old baby, how many minutes do I have to wait for the next feeding of my baby?

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