So I watch a lot of like, chance spearfishing channels, you know? And it's fun how how much they

love it. And how instead of me just watching it by myself, it's so much different and fun to just

kind of envelop that in.

What's up guys? Welcome to their Five Minute Fatherhood. One of the things that we're constantly

discussing is how do we get these upstream generations into our family's life and a really interesting conversation on the Facebook group.

If you haven't gotten in there, go to the Five Minute Fatherhood Facebook group and join the dads

that are having great discussions in there. But my buddy Ryan, who lives here in Cincinnati,

talked about a victory. Now, he was just listening to our previous podcast that we did on Dad's Building Teams about the nuclear family and said that he was really wrestling with what we were saying. And then he said, but, but like in the midst of that, I really, I really found a victory. So let me just read you what Ryan did. And I just found this really, there's a lot of application to this. So Ryan, again, thank you so much for contributing to our community. I love what you're doing, man.

By the way, Ryan also mentors my son Jackson on a regular basis. So he's a really special

person to our whole family. Yeah. So he wrote, see, here's my victory. The past few weeks,

I've been burned out doing bedtime with the kids. And I've been FaceTiming family and asking them to tell the kids a family story. The first response is it initially, I don't know. Then I clarify, how about a story from when you were a kid or tell us about your dad or mom? Then an amazing thing happens. They start sharing, and I see my dad, my uncle, whoever come alive, so to speak.

It's like they are designed for this specific purpose.

So basically, you know, Ryan was saying he was kind of getting burned out, putting his

kids to bed and the whole long process.

And so he just came up with this idea because the quarantine, he can't have necessarily a lot of interaction with

his parents. And so he just facetimed his dad and put the phone there next to, I gave the phone

to one of his kids as they were going down and just let his father put his, you know, daughter or

son to sleep, you know, with a story, a family story. I was like, yeah, me too. It's like using technology in this way is so brilliant. And there's a few things that I did here with like the prompts that make it really easy. But I just, I think this is a huge win. But yeah, Jeff, how did you see this? Yeah, I just thought it was such a cool way because there's so many ways where technology hurts our relationships, hurts our families.

And so I feel like,

yeah, Jeff, how did you see this? Yeah, I just thought it was such a cool way because there's so many ways where technology hurts our relationships, hurts our families. And so I feel like, yeah, it's just so fun to almost feel like a cool little way is to just try to redeem it, you know, and think of ways where you can actually use it to your advantage, you know? And of course, some of us are zoomed out and all that stuff, totally warranted. but I think yeah what are some other ways that you can you you know use it and so like that like one way i've been really enjoying lately is um me and the kids will have like we'll watch like youtube videos together or something like that you know and it's really fun too because usually you'll watch kid ones but what i do is i really it's really fun to welcome them into something i love and so i've been trying to get into spear fishing last couple months. And so I watch a lot of like, spearfishing channels, you know?

And it's really fun to welcome them into something I love. And so I've been trying to get into spear fishing last couple months. And so I watch a lot of like, spearfishing channels, you know? And it's fun how much they love it. And I mean, like, and how instead of me just watching it by myself, it's so much different and fun to just kind of envelop that in them in for like one little quick eight minute video that's like really special kind of resets our family they're cuddling on my lap they ask questions and i'm like doing that every day now just for like little

eight to ten minutes uh and that's just super fun so it's just like ways to think about how to redeem it

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