Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

Once in a while I do write about daddies and how important their role, active involvements and contribution are in the family and in raising the children.

How it’s not just about being the one who brings home the bacon. How a daddy should work together hand in hand with the mommy – as a team – when it comes to spending quality time, having fun, reprimanding misbehaviours, even disciplining the children. How a daddy’s way of treating and speaking to the mommy will be observed, and most likely be followed, by the children, especially the sons.

[I shared about ‘backseat dads‘, from the book ‘First-time Mom’ by Kevin Leman sometime ago]

Now there’s a really good write-up on this topic in yesterday’s Straits Times, in the forum section. It’s written by Focus On The Family, a non-profit organisation that’s dedicated to the strengthening of Singapore families (Btw I happened to have recently met up with the Focus team, and I must say they’re truly passionate about sending the pro-family message to the society. Fun and hard working group of people)

Anyway. Please click HERE to see the bigger version.

And I’d like to quote the last paragraph :

Dr James Dobson, family psychologist and founder of Focus On The Family, imparts this advice to busy parents : “I urge you to give priority to family. Those kids around your feet will be grown and gone before you know it. Don’t let the opportunity of these days slip away from you. When you stand where I am today, the relationship with those you love will outweigh every other good thing in your life.’

And I so completely agree with him.