Dedicated to Fully Engaged Dads For Being There For Your Kids (Just the Two of Us) by Will Smith

Mike Donnelly knows that being an involved dad isn’t easy—it’s led him to make major changes in his life and family over the years! This week on the program, he joins Mike Smith to encourage and inspire fathers with practical suggestions for engaging more fully with their families.

Dad's Special Challenge
If you’re a father of sons, you know that raising young men is challenging. But homeschooling provides some great opportunities to invest in your sons. Today on Home School Heartbeat, HSLDA President Mike Smith and his guest Mike Donnelly offer suggestions to dads on stepping up to lead their sons’ education.

Mike Smith:
Boys have certain needs that only a father can meet. When sons hit high school age, they especially need their father to be active in their education. In some families, this involves the father taking over the complete responsibility for their son’s education, or some of the son’s classes. Mike, you have four sons. Can you give one or two examples of how you’ve provided special leadership in your sons’ education?

Mike Donnelly:
Mike, as my sons have gotten older, I’ve decided to bring them into work and on business trips with me. They have a desk in my office, and they do their work right along side me. And we go out to lunch, and we have opportunities to talk about school, what they’re learning, and about larger issues—about how God is calling them and working in their lives.

This year I’ve felt called to start an ALERT Cadet squad with the support of our local church. This is kind of a combination between Awana and Boy Scouts-it's really a ministry focused on assisting men to win the hearts of their sons. Fathers and sons work together on materials, attend meetings, we do adventure projects and service projects together. Really, it’s an opportunity for me and my sons to get together with other men in a Proverbs 27:17, iron-sharpens-iron kind of situation, which is really helpful.

But whether it’s ALERT Cadet, Mike, or something else, we fathers really to make time to invest and connect with our sons, to build those relationships that will help guide them and support them, as they achieve God’s purposes and His plans for them.

Mike Smith:
Mike, that’s terrific! Next time, we’ll talk about more about how busy dads can make time for their kids. Until then, I’m Mike Smith.
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