And perhaps this is the beginning of a series where I'll take what I've learned and I welcome your comments. I'll take what I've learned from my personal experiences with my dad and with my personal experiences with my kids and discuss the things that perhaps we as dads need to do a little differently. So I think one of the earliest memories I have coming to the US was of my father telling me I was worthless
And I don't think society gives men enough credit for that because it is the absentee father that we like to hear. Especially when you think about the complications of race, whether you be black or brown or whatever, there are certain stigmas of masculinity in general, and then it gets more complicated when you add color to it. So I 100% agree with you
Moy Sanchez
@MoySanchez · 3:55
It. First of all, let me congratulate you on the soon to be arrival of your little one. And you're absolutely right. It changes your world. When I got married, I realized how selfish I was. And I'll spare you the details. I thought I dealt with just thinking about myself. And we didn't start having kids until two or three years into our marriage
Angela Kaye
@AnngieKaye · 3:38
You. Good evening. This swell was great to listen to. I'm going to share it out because I think more people need to hear it. I fully agree with you that the culture's eviction of the father's role is evident. I think I've done a swell or two about this. Um, I did a swell entitled the male voice and how I see the attempt to silence the male voice
And you only have a very limited amount of time to shape them into the human beings that they're going to be for the rest of their life. So it requires both a mother and a father's presence. Yeah, that's about it. It's always been hard for me to say that, because some people just don't have dads and they're not good dads. And I pray for those people. I pray for those kids. I pray for those adults who never had that
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 4:46
And we tend to, oh, my baby's crying. Let me pet my baby. But most men are like, no, they're okay. Let them cry for a little bit. It's okay. Character building. And so we need that balance. Fathers are very important. They play very important roles in the development of well balanced children and healthy, mentally and emotionally balanced children. And so we definitely need fathers. And we need them, man. I'll be honest
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 3:30
Oh, my goodness. This well is spot on. Thank you so much for calling it out. My significant other and I have this conversation regularly. How there's a parent, not there seems to be, it's a parent. A conditioning that marketing and tv shows, series, and movies are portraying, as you mentioned, dads as these incapable human beings that aren't able to connect with their children, aren't able to connect with their spouses, aren't as involved