The role model dad must be #shorts

A father reflects on his own dad's practical approach and how it shapes his parenting. He wants to be an authority his kids trust, not a buddy, and he's learning to meet them where they are: his son Hudson loves woodwork, so he does too. Parenting has tested his temper in ways he didn't expect.
Questions this video answers
Hudson
You talked about your. Your dad and the role model that he was. What are you trying to do with your kids? Because they're all boys, right. So, like, it's. It's quite apt with what you're doing. Yeah. Like sort of going down that. So what, what have you taken from your father? And what are you. What are you changing? What do you. What do you want to envision onto your kids?
Yeah, I. It's a good question because I'm. I'm similar to my dad, like all of us. So you'll be similar to your dad and your mum in some ways. But, you know, my dad and I are very different. He's very kind of analytical. Like he, when he was younger, could take engines apart. He can do wiring, plumbing, you know, all that stuff. I just not interested in that stuff. I never have been. So, you know, I. I've been lucky, really, with my father, that he's actually. I can be crap at those things because he's. He comes and does them for me. But I realized with my kids that my son, Hudson, he loves woodwork and everything, so I have to kind of force myself to be interested in it because I know he's looking to me to kind of test things out. So it's a real balancing act with kids because you want to, you know, you shouldn't be there to be your child's friend as such, you know, you want them to look up to you and they know they feel safe and secure and you know they can trust you and they can come to you anything. But you also have to have some level of discipline with children so they don't just take the piss, which is really hard with little point boys or girls. You know, kids of that age have no ability to listen to instructions. And they've been my biggest challenge because I don't think I ever lost my temper until I had kids. And I was interviewed by or interviewed a psychotherapist who spoke about that, where sometimes what you realize as a man is that until you have kids, like, no one's ever laughed in your face.










