Good Advice for Fathers

by Randy Hain | July 21, 2010 1:00 pm

[1]The following article is by family and educational consultant James Stenson.  Mr. Stenson generously allows reprints of his material from his Parent Leadership website.  Please share your comments on this article below.

Advice for Fathers

By James Stenson

Sometimes negative guidelines are at least as helpful as positive ones, often more so. It’s often useful for a father to know what not to do–that is, what to avoid–in a complicated family situation.

I used to ask veteran fathers (men whose children had grown and gone) what warnings or other “negative know-how” they’d pass on to younger Dads. In paraphrase, here are some bits of hard-earned fatherly wisdom they shared with me….

[This folio is excerpted from my book Father, the Family Protector (Princeton, NJ: Scepter Publishers, 2004.]

Permission is hereby granted to reproduce this material for private use.
It is taken from the Website of James B. Stenson, educational consultant: ParentLeadership.com.

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