I really believe that if it's ideal for a father never to raise his voice to his children.

What's up, guys? Welcome back to Five Minute Fatherhood. So I would say, and we've talked about

this a little bit, but I wanted to kind of go one layer deeper. One of the things that you are

stewarding as a father is the weight of your voice.

How much do your children respond to your voice? And so that is one of the things that you are

either building more strength, more equity, more respect around between you and your

children where your kids are like, whoa, dad's voice really means something, or it's something

that you're eroding subtly. And so I want you guys to think about that and think about what are

the things that erode the power of your voice and what are the things that

really enhance it? And when we talk about this in this way, it's not for the sake of, you know,

dominating your children. It's for the sake of giving your kids a real sense of grounding and like,

wow, I really want to learn to obey my dad. I trust my dad. So there's obvious things that erode your voice,

things like saying, if you do that one more time, you're going to get in trouble, and they do it

again. All right. Now, if you can do that, you know, it's like the problem with that kind of stuff,

there's obviously kind of that's bad training, but I would say that even the bigger,

longer term, bigger picture problem is it erodes your voice. And one of the things that you can do, if you really want to increase the

strength or the weight of your voice in the ears of your children, is to play games where

they respond to your voice very quickly. So there's the traditional Simon says,

you know, game that we all played when we were kids. And you can, you can play Dad says,

you know, and like get your kids to have a little bit more of a knee-jerk reaction to,

oh, dad says, you know, grab that thing or do this,

I'm going to do that. You know, sort of those kinds of games, I think, are really, really great

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