St. John Paul 5 Powerful Lessons To Fatherhood All Men Should Know

The role of fathers in their families has evolved from conceptions of fathers as distant breadwinners to a more holistic recognition that they are equal co-parents. This role can have a large impact on a child and help shape him or her into the person they become. That is why Saintly Pope taught how vital the role of fatherhood is to the success of every family, so he laid out these simple, yet powerful guides for fathers:
1 LOVE YOUR WIFE AND CHILDREN
Love for his wife as mother of their children and love for the children themselves are for the man the natural way of understanding and fulfilling his own fatherhood. Above all where social and cultural conditions so easily encourage a father to be less concerned with his family or at any rate less involved in the work of education, efforts must be made to restore socially the conviction that the place and task of the father in and for the family is of unique and irreplaceable importance.

2. TAKE AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THE EDUCATION OF YOUR CHILDREN
In revealing and in reliving on earth the very fatherhood of God, a man is called upon to ensure the harmonious and united development of all the members of the family: he will perform this task by exercising generous responsibility for the life conceived under the heart of the mother, by a more solicitous commitment to education, a task he shares with his wife

3. DON’T BE AN ABSENT FATHER
As experience teaches, the absence of a father causes psychological and moral imbalance and notable difficulties in family relationships.

4. BE A SOURCE OF UNITY, NOT DIVISION
[N]ever a cause of division in the family, but promotes its unity and stability.

5. BE A STRONG CHRISTIAN WITNESS
[B]y means of the witness he gives of an adult Christian life which effectively introduces the children into the living experience of Christ and the Church.