Hero

Being the Strong Father Your Children Need

by Meg Meeker

Number of pages: 240

Publisher: Regnery Gateway

BBB Library: Parenting

ISBN: 978-1621575023



About the Author

Meg Meeker, M.D., is a fellow of the National Advisory Board of the Medical Institute and an associate professor of medicine at Michigan State School of Human Medicine. Dr. Meeker is a popular speaker and bestselling author of several books, including the national bestseller, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, and The 10 Habits Of Happy Mothers.

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Editorial Review

Every child needs a father, and that includes grown children. A dad is the one they look up to as the hero who can meet any challenge thrown at the family. The human family was meant to have mothers and fathers working together, and when they work together, as they were designed to do, their children’s lives are enriched emotionally, spiritually, intellectually, and, even physically. And guess what? You dads are wired to handle that pressure, to meet those challenges, to provide for and protect your family.

Book Reviews

“With warmth, humor, sage wisdom, and sound practical advice, Meeker ensures fathers that they do, in fact, have everything they need to be the heroes their children so desperately want and need.”—Psych Central

“This book is friendly, practical, encouraging, and inspiring. I think that every dad could be blessed by what Dr. Meeker has written inHero: Becoming the Dad Your Children Need. Both a love song to dads and a playbook to equip them, this dynamic book will affirm their worth, inform their attitudes, empower their actions, and encourage their very souls.”

“At the time, I was recovering from my divorce and as a parent who was going to need to be both mom and dad, I was looking for something. Anything. And this book appeared. Not only did this book give me a newfound set of skills to help me navigate, but it also gave me a brand-new way to look at my relationship with my father. I asked him questions I had not been brave enough to ask before.”

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Wisdom to Share

A family was meant to have mothers and fathers working together, and when they work together, as they were designed to do, their children’s lives are enriched emotionally, spiritually, intellectually, and, even physically. Children from intact families have a much better chance to be healthy and happy children.

Your dads are wired to handle that pressure, to meet those challenges, to provide for and protect your family.

Men are great problem-solvers; apply your common sense to your family. When children look at their dad as a hero, they’re looking for a model of quiet strength, calm confidence, and self-control.

When kids and teens have temper tantrums and scream, they are out of control—and they know it, and they know it’s a weakness, and they don’t want to see the same from you.

Every child believes his father is a great man. That’s what your children want you to be; it’s what they expect you to be.

More than anything else, they want your approval. They’re learning from you all the time, from the moment they’re born—and for the rest of your life. They want to meet the standard you set for them because you will always be their dad.

You are built to withstand the pressures that get put on you and your family—including the pressure of a rebellious teen.

Your words, body language, and presence can determine your child’s outlook every day. Their identity is still forming and they are constantly looking to you to tell them who they are. As a great communicator dad, you need to make sure you tell them the right things.

Having a strong moral conscience, a firm idea of what is right and wrong is part of being a man, it is part of what defines a hero, and it is part and parcel of what it takes to be a father who is the moral leader of his family.

Growing in character is something dads help kids do, and your leadership is essential when it comes to helping kids avoid bad peer pressure.

The first step to becoming a better dad than your father is to recognize his mistakes and, most importantly, recognize how they affected you as a boy.