Hey guys, welcome back to the Dad Tired podcast. Today I sit down with David Thomas, who is the executive director of Daystar counseling ministries.

He's also the co-author of a new book called Capable.

David has worked with hundreds, if not thousands of parents and children specifically

in helping them become resilient children and parents who can raise resilient children.

This is a really helpful, practical parenting conversation

for you and for you as a man. Before we jump into that conversation, I want to remind you that we have our dad tired annual retreat coming up. If you have not signed up for that, we want to make sure you get a spot. You can go to dadtire.com and click the annual retreat tab. I know many of you are planning on signing up and you have just yet to pull the trigger this is your sign right now go to the

dad tired website and make sure you grab your ticket for that right away. Also, we've been doing our dad tired one day conferences all over the country and world. We would love to host one of these conferences at your church if you're interested in hosting one at your church, whether you're a pastor or a leader or you just love your church and you're excited about seeing the men of your church rise up to be the men God's call them to be. Email us. You can go to dadtire.com. Click the one day conferences tab. You can see which ones are coming to your area. And if there's not one in your area, you can reach out to us so we can tell you a little bit more about what it looks like to host. That being said, let's dive into today's episode. David, I'm so excited, man, to have you back here on the podcast. Last time we had you guys on, it was just so helpful. I'm just going to be honest right up front with our audience. This is a completely selfish interview.

I feel like I'm just, if there were no audience, if we never hit record, I just feel like I'm getting in a free session, like a parenting session. You are kind. As a dad who's trying to figure this out. But thank you, brother, for coming back on. And for the audience who may not be familiar with you and the work you're doing, and tell us who you are and what you're up to these days.

I'd be glad to, but first I want to say, I'm so happy to be back with

you. Thank you for those kind of words. Really, really honored to get to share this conversation.

And I am first and foremost, a proud son and brother and husband and father. And in addition to those roles,

I'm also the executive director of a place in Nashville, Tennessee, called Daystar Counseling

Ministries, where I've had the great joy of spending the last three decades of my work there.

And we are unique in that our whole focus as a practice

is on serving and supporting the pediatric population. So we work with kids, adolescents,

and families. And out of that work, have had the great privilege of writing some books and getting

talk about those books and hosting a podcast with my dear friend

and colleague Sissy Goff and we recently released a new book called Capable, which is all

about building resilience into the kits we love and super excited. You and I can talk some about that

today. Yeah, I'm again selfishly looking forward to just

picking your brain on that as a dad of four. All still living with me and I'm trying to figure out as a dad

how to how to raise capable children. Just so I have a couple questions before we jump in on

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