You're in for going upstream, potentially for the rest of your life with your family.

And you have to count the cost.

Hey guys, welcome to the Five Minute Fatherhood podcast.

I'm your co-host, Jeff Beth Key, along with my friend and mentor, Jeremy Pryor.

Join us Monday through Friday as we chat about quick tips, skills, and ways to help equip you

on your journey as a father to build your multi-generational family team on mission. Stay tuned.

What's up guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. Every once in a while, we want to

take a big step back and talk about the big picture of what we're trying to do here. And I was reminded of the big picture when I was reading a quote by Henry Matisse, the French artist. And he said, to look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.

And one of the things that we are constantly talking to you guys about is that there are two

totally different ways to view family. You can view family in the typical Western way,

virtually every single person listening to this, probably grew up in a family.

Primarilyarily you thought

about the family as a group of individuals as opposed to a team. And so this difference is very

costly. And a lot of times we don't talk about, because for some of you, you're like, well, that

sounds a little bit better. Yeah, maybe instead of having just total individualism,

we'll kind of move a little bit towards team. But this can really be challenging because being

a team requires a completely different level of intentionality. It requires a lot of equipping

because every kind of tool that you're going to run into that really helps build the family in Western

societies is based on assuming that you're leading your family as individuals. Schools are

designed that way, churches are designed that way, just about every single endeavor. It pulls people

apart into their individual identity.

And there's not a lot of places you can go that's like, yeah, why don't you bring your whole family, all the age groups, and we're going to, you know, grow together.

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