Good Dad/ Bad Dad 7 Secrets of Effective Fathering /Introduction

Name the three great examples of fathers in current culture…..you can’t say Bill Cosby, or the guy on “Father Knows Best”…
Go ahead; we’re waiting….
Can’t seem to find three?
How come?
Where have all the dads gone?

What is it with us guys?…
We can build societies, cities, economies, entire countries, but we can’t build relationships?
What’s up with the dads?

Dads are in trouble.
Everything assaults us…
Society, work, appetites, pressures, time management, busyness etc…

We have no training, no schools, no workshops, few seminars, and no classes on how to be an effective father… moreover, as you learned from the exercise above, we have very few examples from which to learn.
At the end of the day, or even the beginning for that matter, a dad has to ask the following questions…

1. Who am I?
2. What do I want?
3. Why am I here?
4. What’s not working now?
5. What would I like to see start working now…

I will attempt to answer these questions as the Good Dad/Bad Dad seven secrets to effective fathering continues…