That is such a powerful way to prepare your kids for the future.

Hey, what's up, guys?

Welcome back to Five Minute Fatherhood.

So sometimes we like to just share quotes, tease them out.

They really kind of get at a really foundational element of fatherhood.

And I ran across this one and wanted to chat about

this for a little bit. H. Jackson Brown says, life doesn't come with an instruction book.

That's why we have fathers. And man, I think this is a piece of ancient wisdom that people used to have a deep understanding of a lot of people still do,

but I think is increasingly getting lost. And that is that it is critically important for the

father to understand that they have a role in teaching their children the basic way that life works. That's the reason why the

book of Proverbs exists. This is Solomon saying to his son and then to all of his children

multigenerationally that, hey, I spent my whole life trying to figure out how life works.

And I want to pass those on to you in these

little wise sayings so that you can understand it. And so it's really important to be collecting

proverbs as a father and talking to your kids about, hey, you see that situation? You see what's going

on there? Let me give you some insight into how that works.

And if you imagine that that's constantly happening, really taking advantage of each of

those teachable moments, that is such a powerful way to prepare your kids for the future,

to train your kids to be good parents as they get older.

And sometimes I like to think about

this in just the basic, you know, answering the what, how, and why questions for your kids.

You know, so oftentimes when they're young, we're oftentimes explaining the what to them.

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