Promises That Dads Should Make to Their Kids

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🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:29.8	Great article by Andrew Linder in All-Prodad.com.
0:34.8	I think that is a wonderful site.
0:40.8	You guys may want to frequent it often.
0:55.7	Help you be a better man, better spouse, better dad. Okay. It's seven promises, all dads should make to their kids. Why should you make promises
0:57.2	so that your kids can trust you and count on you?
1:02.4	That's what promises are for.
1:04.9	Trust and counting on people.
1:06.5	That's why you make vows.
1:08.4	To make it clear, to make a statement,
1:14.8	to make everybody know, to be held accountable.
1:17.1	That's what promises are for.
1:18.7	That's what vows are for.
1:20.5	So it is not the same thing as shacking up.
1:24.0	Don't even try to go there.
1:26.4	There's a reason we shack up and avoid promises we don't want to make them
1:31.8	we don't want ultimately to be accountable don't kid yourselves a little piece of paper doesn't
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