Your home needs to be a place where your kids can failโand learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but donโt try to undo their failures. Itโs not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.
Kevin LemanNobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.
Kevin LemanThat's the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they're in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.
Kevin LemanWhy does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what a male is all about. It's the first man in her life--the first man she loves, the first male she tries to please, the first man who says no to her, the first man to discipline her. In effect, he sets her up for success or failure with the opposite sex. Not only that, but she takes cues from how Dad treats Mom as she grows up about what to expect as a woman who is in a relationship with a man. So Dad sets up his daughter's marriage relationship too.
Kevin LemanRemember, you cannot be responsible for the happiness of other people. You can do your best to be sensitive to the needs and desires of others, but some people will not be happy no matter how much you do for them. If you decided you were responsible for their happiness, you could drive yourself completely up the nearest wall.
Kevin Leman