Your Children Are Watching

It’s my greatest joy. Being their dad. It’s less common these days to have them all together in the same place, but Father’s Day and here we all are together.

Yes, my greatest joy.

But also my greatest responsibility.

As their Dad, I am their example. While I hope they listen to what I say, what I do is always more important than what I say. And I know they are watching.

They’re always watching.

How I choose to show up in my life will impact how they show up in their own. Will they see me taking responsibility for my life? Will they see how I honor the commitments I make to others and the commitments I make to myself, how I speak to others and how I speak to myself? How I handle failure and adversity, how I rise to overcome, how I live with intention, how I respect myself, how I am willing to apologize when necessary? How I give back, how I lift up, how I show up every day as the best version of me I can be that day?

How I love them unconditionally?

We all have a vision of who we want our children to become. For them to thrive, to honor their gifts, to live fully the life they’ve been given.

Perhaps the best thing we can ever do for them is to live our own life that exact same way.

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