A Father's Guide to Bonding with Sons and Daughters with Michael Gurian
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
According to Columbia University, children who have a poor relationship with their father are 68% more likely to drink, smoke, or use drugs. How we can strengthen the bond between father and son and father and daughter?
Michael Gurian is one of the world’s foremost experts on gender and the brain and has been called “The People's Philosopher” for his ability to bring together people’s ordinary lives and scientific ideas. He is the NY Times bestselling author of thirty-two books, a keynote speaker, a husband and a father.
Michael tells us the three top reasons why today’s kids aren’t connecting with their dads. He teaches us to discover our assets as fathers and how to invite our kids to utilize them. He also shares the neuroscience behind the differences between bonding with sons and daughters, and how we can best father each one.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dad's with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:25.0 | Hey, what's up guys? |
| 0:29.0 | Hey what's up guys? Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Larry Hagner. |
| 0:31.0 | I am your host and founder of this show and I wanted to start out with kind of a |
| 0:37.1 | Scary statistic today |
| 0:40.1 | Researchers at Columbia University found that children with a poor relationship with their father are 68% more likely to smoke, drink, or use drugs compared to all teens who deem themselves as having a strong relationship with their fathers. |
| 0:58.0 | So hey, if you're here listening to this show, I don't take your time lightly, |
| 1:02.0 | because I know you're hungry to create the connection |
| 1:04.1 | that you want with your kids. And that's just a solid connection, but like an incredible, |
| 1:09.4 | amazing, epic connection with your kids and that's why you're here. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm excited about today's show because I've got a fantastic guest for you guys today. |
| 1:18.0 | He is coming on to talk to us about how we can actually strengthen that bond between father and son or father and daughter. |
| 1:26.6 | So today I have Dr. Michael Gerion and he is a New York Times best selling author of 32 books published in 23 different languages. |
| 1:40.0 | He also provides counseling services in a private practice, but what, I think, 32 books? |
| 1:46.2 | 32 books, do you know how many words that is? |
| 1:48.5 | That's crazy. |
| 1:50.2 | His work has been featured in nearly all major media channels such as the New York Times, |
| 1:55.8 | the Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, Time People magazine, The Wall Street Journal, |
| 2:01.9 | Forbes Psychology Today, the Christian Science Monitor, |
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