The instruction is really critical. You need to explain to them, especially as it get older,

like why these things are important.

What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So we like to dial into a particular

passage every four or five episodes. And there's one in Second Timothy four, too, that I find really helpful

for fatherhood. This is when Paul says to Timothy, kind of his spiritual son, preach the word,

be prepared in season and out of season, correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience

and careful instruction. And I want to talk to you guys about the three things that Paul is

telling Timothy to do here,

correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and careful instruction. These three things,

correcting and rebuking and encouraging, are like three tools in your tool belt as a dad to help shape your children.

And oftentimes what I like to do is try to understand for each father,

which of these tools are they very comfortable with wielding and which tools are more challenging

for them. And so just to kind of break this down, you guys, correcting is oftentimes those very

quick moments where you're like, hey, that's going the wrong way. You need to move this way.

It's not like a big conversation.

It's something that's relatively quick, relatively common.

We talk a lot about this in terms of using systems,

like the marble system or something that's really simple

where you can help a child have a quick correction

that takes like five to 10 seconds to give them without going into some big

disciplined situation. So corrections and having tools for correction is really critical. A second one is the rebuke.

It is very important to be good at rebuking your kids. This is where you actually say things that are relatively like stark and

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