those laws are going to bring them to Christ. It's like a tutor that helps them really understand

that, yeah, justice is real.

What's up, guys? Welcome back to Five Minute Fatherhood. So we are in the middle of a series,

part two of a six-part series on stage-based parenting. We just talked about the stage of

being a comforter, stage one, the style

of low-stress, high presence. And when Jeff mentioned that you always know you're leaving that

stage because the baby starts to exert independence. They start to, you know, drop the sippy

cup. Testing, curiosity. You know, one of our kids actually very clearly verbally was leaving the stage when every single

time we tried to help her do anything. She was like, you know, she said, do it myself, mama,

do it myself. Yeah, exactly. And that's a great, that's a great, that's a great moment. You should not

be like, oh, I got to beat the defiance out of the

my chair. No, that's like awesome. Let them do it themselves and fail terribly. It's right. And this is a

moment where you get to train your kids because they're really interested in learning things.

They're not, and so you want to really engage. And so what we call this, the style of the, the goal of this, this stage to train them up.

And this is really the stage that most people, when they think about parenting in general,

they oftentimes think of this stage. We call this the coach stage. So the first one's comforter.

The second one is coach. This is usually age two to 12. And, uh, and so this is a time where you

want to, your kids are really sort of more simple.

They really respond well to consistency. Now they'll fight you on that stuff, but they're constantly

like considering the world in a much more concrete way than they will in the future stages.

And so you want to take advantage of that

by creating really good boundaries, really good guardrails, really good systems. Those things

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