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Impacting Your Kids Destiny

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Issue #8: Impacting Your Kids' Destiny

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Get Smart. Be Involved

Do your kids have great dreams for their lives? If so, what are you doing about it? Are you helping them pursue those dreams? Do they understand the cost involved in succeeding in making those dreams come true?

A recent study from the UK found that children who had a father actively involved in their lives registered a higher IQ than those whose fathers weren't involved. In fact, it wasn't enough just to live in a two-parent home, but the father actually had to be involved in the child's life on a regular basis.

When you are involved in your children's lives, they feel more secure and more confident in what they want to accomplish. Being present and involved are simple steps you can take to helping them achieve those dreams. It's also important to helping your kids understand that dreams don't happen with wishful thinking. Dreams are not free.

This week, we'll watch a video about how you can call out your children, get some practical tips on instilling courage in your children to pursue the dream God has played in their hearts, hear from a dad whose life was turned upside down by applying this message, and the importance of helping your kids understand the cost of a dream.

If you like this newsletter, be sure to forward it on to other dads who would be encouraged by its contents. Our mission is to speak life into men again and help them catch the Smile over their lives so they can make a difference with their kids and the orphans they meet.

Coaching Moment: From Dreams to Reality

In this Coaching Moments video, Ed shares about what it takes to help your kids turn their dreams into reality through helping them understand what it takes to achieve those dreams.

Instilling Your Kids with Courage

Know: Hearing that we can't do something is death to many dreams. There have likely been moments in your life where people told you that you couldn't do something and you walked away from it right then and there. If you had received an encouraging word, maybe you would have pursued it. Remember, your kids feel the same way. Knee jerk responses of "no" aren't helping your kids be courageous in pursuing their God-given dreams.

Learn: Ephesians 6:4 says, "Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord." (NIV)

Do: Practice patience in responding to your children. Instead of immediately snuffing out an idea or a dream, explore with your child what you can do together to make it a reality. Spell out the costs for achieving this dream for them.

Here's a story from another dad who caught the smile of God over his life and began to pass it along to his son:

Ed, I was called out at the men's retreat and became a man and a father. I know God arranged Sunday night so I could now call out my son. To stand there and affirm him and call him to be a man changed my life.

I have so caught up in only trying to get my kids to perform, and now I know that my first and most important job is to love and affirm them. -- M.S.

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The Cost of a Dream

In pursuing my dream of playing in the NFL, I realized that dreams are not free. While athletes vary in the amount of talent they possess, not a single player in the NFL could just snap his fingers and play at the sport's highest level. It cost some guys plenty of blood, sweat and tears. And for guys like me, it took buckets of that stuff to reach the pinnacle of making a roster and playing this sport.

Helping your kids understand this fact is important. If we don't tell our children that dreams are costly, they simply become dreamers, filing away one unattained pursuit after another on a bookshelf of broken dreams. We must help them avoid falling into such an apathetic approach to the dreams God has placed in their hearts.

"For the joy set before Him," Jesus endured the cross. Dreams can be quite costly at times. To take up your cross means you have to be willing to deny current pleasures and distractions for long-term gain. So many times, Christ came to that moment when He had to deny Himself rather than grabbing His rights. Every dream that is worthwhile has a price attached -- a trade-off that requires you to say "no" to something else you value. But if you can live under the smile of your Father, the trade-offs don't matter. You don't care about them any more.

Keep showing up and making a difference,

Ed Tandy McGlasson
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