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slash parenting podcast. You know all around it seems that we dads are told this lie you aren't important in the home.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta.

Danny is the head of parenting and youth here at Focus on the Family.

He's also a licensed counselor and Danny, we all seem, I think, to know, moms are a real key

influencer in a child's life. How different is it for dads? How different and how important?

Well the importance is great. I mean we see that in research that dads can impact the academic

performance of their kids, their success later in life, their spiritual growth,

spiritual development, their ability to know how to navigate

relationships and love women well. The other one is learning to be okay with the masculine way that they're created and by that I mean that you don't

have to be the strongest person ever to live you don't have to be jumping off of big jumps on your bike you don't have to

prove anything you can just be masculine who you've been created to be and

that's learning to love and be able to bring your strength into into the mix that you're in and

some research that is very fun to talk about is the rough housing that dads

generally tend to bring into the house and the benefits

academically and emotionally for kids and kids learn how to navigate their big emotions because

in rough housing you can have some anger kind of come up and

frustration yet you're playing at the same time so kids learn how to navigate big

emotions there.

And really the savings for a family

are endless as far as financial from a dad,

a dad that's participating in helping

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