10 TIPS FOR DADS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Since we focused on moms last week, here are some tips for dads this week: \u2022 YOU are the biggest influence in your son\u2019s life\u2014you are almost\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"10 TIPS FOR DADS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Since we focused on moms last week, here are some tips for dads this week: \u2022 YOU are the biggest influence in your son\u2019s life\u2014you are almost\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"A Few Grown Men\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-09-10T06:01:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-09-10T00:08:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/files\/2012\/09\/Johnson-194x300.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"rickjohnson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"rickjohnson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/\",\"name\":\"10 TIPS FOR DADS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-09-10T06:01:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-09-10T00:08:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/#\/schema\/person\/258a7529184b48a04cf8e4d885eacb40\"},\"description\":\"Since we focused on moms last week, here are some tips for dads this week: \u2022 YOU are the biggest influence in your son\u2019s life\u2014you are almost\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"10 TIPS FOR DADS\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/\",\"name\":\"A Few Grown Men\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/#\/schema\/person\/258a7529184b48a04cf8e4d885eacb40\",\"name\":\"rickjohnson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5d6031625ba2b41512ca9ae3ddc0068a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5d6031625ba2b41512ca9ae3ddc0068a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"rickjohnson\"},\"description\":\"Rick is a bestselling author and sought after speaker. He is also a severely flawed husband, father, son, uncle, brother, coach, mentor, and hundreds of other roles. And yet God sometimes uses him mightily despite his flaws.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.betterdads.net\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/author\/rickjohnson\/\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"10 TIPS FOR DADS","description":"Since we focused on moms last week, here are some tips for dads this week: \u2022 YOU are the biggest influence in your son\u2019s life\u2014you are almost","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"10 TIPS FOR DADS","og_description":"Since we focused on moms last week, here are some tips for dads this week: \u2022 YOU are the biggest influence in your son\u2019s life\u2014you are almost","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/","og_site_name":"A Few Grown Men","article_published_time":"2012-09-10T06:01:36+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-09-10T00:08:07+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/files\/2012\/09\/Johnson-194x300.jpg"}],"author":"rickjohnson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"rickjohnson","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/","name":"10 TIPS FOR DADS","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-09-10T06:01:36+00:00","dateModified":"2012-09-10T00:08:07+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/#\/schema\/person\/258a7529184b48a04cf8e4d885eacb40"},"description":"Since we focused on moms last week, here are some tips for dads this week: \u2022 YOU are the biggest influence in your son\u2019s life\u2014you are almost","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"10 TIPS FOR DADS"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/","name":"A Few Grown Men","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/#\/schema\/person\/258a7529184b48a04cf8e4d885eacb40","name":"rickjohnson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5d6031625ba2b41512ca9ae3ddc0068a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5d6031625ba2b41512ca9ae3ddc0068a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"rickjohnson"},"description":"Rick is a bestselling author and sought after speaker. He is also a severely flawed husband, father, son, uncle, brother, coach, mentor, and hundreds of other roles. And yet God sometimes uses him mightily despite his flaws.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.betterdads.net"],"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/author\/rickjohnson\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":621,"date":"2012-09-10T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T06:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/?p=621"},"modified":"2012-09-09T18:08:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T00:08:07","slug":"10-tips-for-dads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/afewgrownmen\/2012\/09\/10-tips-for-dads\/","title":{"rendered":"10 TIPS FOR DADS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Since we focused on moms last week, here are some tips for dads this week:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u2022 YOU are the biggest influence in your son\u2019s life\u2014you are almost indispensable.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fathers have been endowed with a huge generational power\/influence to impact people\u2019s lives for good or evil (sometimes for hundreds of years) just by the things they do and don\u2019t do or say or don\u2019t say today.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Boys learn how to be a man, a husband, and a father by observing male role models (good or bad ones).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Boys learn self-respect and respect of others by being respected by their fathers and the respect they see him give others<\/p>\n

\u2022 Character traits like nobility and honor are passed from father to son.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Men and boys long to live lives of significance\u2014they hunger for adventure.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Your sons (and daughters) may be the only people in the world who want<\/em> to love and respect you without your having to earn it first.<\/p>\n

\u2022 You need to resolve any issues between you and your father, before you can grow to become the kind of father you want to be and that your children deserve.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The greatest gift a man can give his children is to love their mother.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Teach your son (or daughter) self-discipline by holding him accountable for his actions and decisions.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Find out more by purchasing Rick\u2019s book, Better Dads\u2014Stronger Sons: How fathers can guide boys to become men of character<\/em>, by Revell Publishing.\u00a0 For more information go to www.betterdads.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"