one of the dominant primary factors that research has supported through studies of a successful

family, but specifically a family that passes on the faith. So has a high percentage of their

kids becoming believers, the kids' kids becoming believers, et cetera. One of the dominant predictors

is this one thing. And it's called...

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Welcome, everyone, to the Family Teams podcast. We are in a series right now where we're talking about winning your children's hearts. And this is such an important thing. I think that for any parent out there when they hear this topic, they're like, yes, how do I do that? What do I do that? We spend so much time thinking, how do we make sure that we keep our children's hearts? Because you really can't a beautiful family an orderly family you can't have an impact in this world if the team

isn't cohesive right and so today we're talking about one of the big threats to this that

unfortunately i think all of us have some experience with which is what does it look like when

the father is maybe maybe not emotionally available?

Right? And so when that happens, like you kind of become the ceiling for your family, right?

And so we want to talk about what does it look like to grow emotionally as a father in order to serve the family and connect them.

So Jeremy, help set this up, frame this for us. Why does it matter matter what does it look like for a father to be

emotionally unavailable what are some signs that might be happening yeah i got really convicted about

this i think our friend josh strobs is something like a child will not surpass his father's emotional

intelligence or emotional availability when he's in his own in that household so this is

creating kind of a ceiling for our our children like you're, Blake. And I'm going to put myself on the couch a little bit on this episode because this is definitely the number one thing I struggle with as a dad. People ask me, you know, what's your biggest weakness? Or I'm like, this is it. This is what I struggle with the most. And part of what I always want to be thinking about, and I want dads who

are listening to this, to understand that when you're asked the question, are you emotionally

available to your child? You can't answer that question without trying to understand how your

child is experiencing you. Like, you can say, oh, I'm totally emotionally,

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