How to Know if You’ve Been a Good Dad
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
How to know if you’ve been a good dad? As parents, we often don’t know if we’re doing the right thing. We want our kids to have honesty, integrity, teamwork, and a good work ethic. We hope they’ll become mentally tough, emotionally resilient, and brave enough to ask for help when they need it. How can we tell if our kids are getting the life lessons we want to teach?
Today I’m going to share a story about a rite of passage experience where my 11-year-old son hiked with me and the Elite Elevation Dad Edge Mastermind to the top of Mount Quandary in Breckenridge Colorado. Listen to how my son not only received a life lesson about accepting help, but also how he reversed it on me and showed me what kind of man he will become.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dad's with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:25.0 | Hey, what's up guys? |
| 0:29.0 | Hey, what's up guys? Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast and happy October. |
| 0:32.0 | This is the first Thursday of October 2019 and we are |
| 0:36.5 | closing out 2019 hopefully as strong as possible. For Thursday throwdown this week I have a story for you guys, something that to be honest, |
| 0:49.3 | I'm going to try to get through with dry eyes, but it's something that happened here recently and I want to |
| 0:56.4 | share this with you guys because if you're anything like me you constantly beat yourself |
| 1:01.6 | up for your parenting skills. |
| 1:05.0 | Sometimes you don't know if you're doing the right thing. |
| 1:07.5 | Sometimes you don't know if you're teaching the life lessons that are needed. |
| 1:11.4 | You don't know if you're teaching work ethic. You don't know if you're |
| 1:14.8 | teaching honesty. You're doing your best, but you don't know if you're doing the right things |
| 1:20.6 | sometimes until something happens you have an experience with your |
| 1:24.8 | kid that maybe you look at that experience and you're like man for as much as I |
| 1:29.5 | beat myself up maybe I'm doing something right. That's part of the reason I want to share this story |
| 1:36.3 | with you guys today. When it comes to teaching kids mental toughness and emotional resiliency and the power of |
| 1:49.0 | asking for help and teamwork. I'm just like you man I sometimes I just I don't know if I'm doing this right. I always |
| 1:57.6 | it's like a game of chess I'm like okay I think I'm setting these things up right I'm having the right |
| 2:01.7 | conversations I'm putting these kids through the right experiences right, I'm having the right conversations, I'm putting these kids |
| 2:03.2 | through the right experiences, hopefully I'm using the right words, and hopefully they're |
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