needs the help his wife. “Listen to the input your wife gives you about each child. Farrar, 215" Here Farrar makes a point that most men probably do not want to listen to but it is definitely important. Men have this desire to be independent in everything. They do not want to depend on anyone, especially a woman. However a father needs to depend on the mother of his children for help because she knows her kids better than anyone. They are the fruit of her loins how could she not know them inside and out. That is not to say that fathers cannot have this type of relationship with their children, it is possible, but it takes a little longer and it is little harder to obtain than it is for the mother. A father also has to treat his wife with respect. As previously stated fathers father more by example than anything else. Say a child, especially a male child, sees their father treating his wife with disrespect. The child then sees that as the norm and when they themselves get married they will believe that disrespect to one’s spouse is not bad, on the other hand it is expected. Instead fathers should be verbal about the love they feel toward their wife.”Love your wife with verbal praise. Ferrar,310" In this portion of his book Farrar says this as to make fathers examples to their children. Fathers sometimes do not realize the impact that their example may have on their kids. Another example is a father who looks at pornography. Pornography is wrong on so many levels, but it is especially wrong for a father of a male to participate in. Again and again there are cases of young men getting tied up with pornography. One way for a young man to not get tied up in it is for him to feel that he can talk to his dad about it. However if the son notices his dad is involved in it he does not feel comfortable talking to his dad about because the dad struggles with it too. It also is not good for a father to look at porno...
