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Welcome to real raw with dr. B this nationally published author and pastor has made it his life’s work to helping people strengthen their relationship with God themselves and each other with 25 years as a licensed counselor, coupled with his own life experiences with the ups and downs of married and single life. It’s like having a counseling session right in your own home. So without any further ado, it’s time for real raw with dr. B, Oh my goodness.

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This is doctor B, where we come on to help you have a better relationship with God yourself and with others, because everything’s about relationship. And when your relationships are in dismount to a form, you really can’t function to your full comparison. Alright? The day segment, Oh, you ain’t gonna like this. You ain’t gonna like it. You’re gonna hear how parents talk to your kids. Okay. Now, now I’m gonna come out there. I’m gonna come out the boat and say right now, parents, you can’t curse your kids out.

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I’m a, I’m going to come out of that. I ain’t afraid. None of y’all. I’m afraid. None of y’all. I ain’t worried about nothing, man. I ain’t worried about no, no, no, no, no, no. You can not continually to curse your kids out. You can’t call a little, you know, about to say, gee, you can’t do that because you are in partying.

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Okay?

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You are imparting things into their lives. You are in partying that spirit into their lives and you don’t expect any type of negativity. When you do that down the road, you have plans

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The seed.

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Okay? You planting seed parents. Listen, I’m talking from my own jacked up parenting. I was not a good parent. And I’m a, I think I’m a little better now. Well, what are you gonna talk to? My kids? I paid them off first. I’m kidding how I’m kidding. All right. But, but again, here we go. Men hear me loud and clear, especially me and him. Lion clip. You will always planting seeds. Okay. Now physically, right?

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Physically you gave your wife semen. That’s her. That’s a proper word. Alright. Alright. And from that semen, it connected to the egg. And then a baby was born nine months later. Right? That’s how it works. All right. Right. Well guess what men, you never hear me, man. You never stop giving seed. Wow. A lot has give that revelation to me. You never stop giving. See guys hear me loud and clear.

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So when you are absent, right when you are not in that child’s life, especially the boy, especially the boy when you’re not in their life, they are not getting seed. I’m sorry. They’re getting seed, but it’s negative. Okay. It’s negative seed. Why? Because you have created a vacuum. Alright. So here you are cursing your kids out saying you ain’t no good saying you’re dumb saying you’re stupid.

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Don’t you think that’s affecting the child after a while? Right? And then, and then, so your parents got in there. I don’t know what’s wrong with him. Really? Really? You have no clue that after calling him out his name, you don’t know why he has self-conscious issues. Come on. Think about it. The originator. Yes. I know.

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Okay. For you deep people. I know God is originator. Okay. But mom and dad got together and created a jowl. All right. So to deal with them, the originator, the mom and dad is telling them they’re no good. Did you get, you get, you, get you. You’re telling a child that their life doesn’t mean anything. I don’t, I don’t have the statistics. I don’t have statistics. But how many kids who are depressed, who are taking pills for depression?

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How many of them have parents who cursed him? I have a sick and feeling the close ratio. Listen, one thing I dig around with my kids. One thing I dig her up. My kids is that we had a game with my kids and I would sit them in front of me enough to get this. And I do it to this day. They said, dad, stop it. But I’m so used to it. I said, are you stupid?

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No. Are you intelligent? Yes. Are you handsome? Yes. Are you a fool? No. I spoke that into their lives. That’s the one thing I did get right with my kids. I, because I was planning what seeds. Okay. I was trying to tell them that. No. Oh my God. No one will define you because I’m defining you. I felt a priest coming by living now alone.

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No one is going parents. The reason why a lot of our kids are kind of Spacey. That’s a good word for that Spacey out there because parents, you haven’t defined them yet. You haven’t told them who and what they are or what’s your style when you crushing at them, guess what you’re doing? You tell them who they are. Okay. Again, Facebook, the subject matter is how parents talk to kids.

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All right. Yes. I know. Sometimes your child can get out of line. I got it. I hear you. But can I back a little bit? Is it possible?

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Oh,

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Oh, what am I client said? I don’t know what my daughter is cursing. And I asked her Madden. Do you curse? She couldn’t talk too much. Why? Because you are okay. What’s the D word here. You are making a deposit. Okay? You are making a deposit into that child. You are making a deposit.

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You are telling them who and what You are telling them, who they are and what they are. So you keep cursing at them. Tell them they won’t be no good. They are no good. They never will be no good. Then you are making a deposit. Now can we go deeper? I will. I’m gonna start it. And then I’ll pick it up in, in part two. Is it possible parent? The reason why you talking to your kids and saying all amount of negativity to them because your parents did that.

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Yeah. So in other words, you are continuing to what cycle your parents were absent. You’re absent. Your parents are negative. You’re negative. So all of these things are combinating to how you are in a deal with your child. All right, we’re coming back with segment. Number two with parent talk in his book, single ladies, get ready for your men. Dr. B teaches women on how not to settle for less than what they want in a future husband.

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Oh my goodness. How are you doing out there? We’re doing vine a segment today is talking about parent talk. We have questions from a gallery. It’s called a Facebook gallery and a executive producer, minister Henry. And he’s going to give me the questions. Go ahead and scenery.

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How do you impart knowledge to a single mother? That’s raising kids. I’m assuming by herself. Yeah. Yeah. That you are currently in.

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It is very difficult when someone’s been raising a child for a long time by themselves. All right. Okay. By themselves. All right. So, so it’s going to take awhile because number one, she has to trust you. First brother. She has to trust you because usually they may have an LA don’t get mad at me. Lady don’t get mad at me. Usually that means that probably wasn’t a revolving door. Meaning men will come in and out in and out of that home and they’re not in our home. And so right now she has an emotional callous.

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She has emotional pain that she ain’t hearing from nobody. So I will say to you, the first thing to do, don’t try to minister to the child and you know, I’m gone right minister to her right. Minister and love her. Okay. You keep loving her when she asks for your suggestions or she actually your input, you definitely give it. And if she doesn’t do it, you don’t flip.

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Okay. Because that is her child. Again, she would raise her child before you came into her life. And once you understand that, because women are like, she bears very territorial guy. Now, sometime the terror, Charlie. Right. And sometime they’re totally wrong. So it’s really trying to understand where they may be acting. All right, EAP, next question.

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Next question. How to deal, how as a single parent to deal with a child’s depression.

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Oh, wow. Okay. So really, as a parent, you, first of all, you need to know your child. Okay? Okay. I know that kind of sounds simple, but it’s true. Sometimes as parents, we can get so busy, right? That we don’t recognize there’s a shift now. Nah, not hear me. The good thing. The good thing about being a parent is that if you know your child you’ll know when something is turned real quickly, you know, immediately either they’re not talking, they shut up in their room.

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Something happened to make them make a turn. So your job as a parent is not to beat them up. Your job is to be inspected, Crusoe and find out what’s going on. But again, that child is something, there was a stimuli, right? Okay. There was a stimuli that came into that child’s life that has veered them in the wrong way. So, and also it may take you taking that child to counseling, to find out what’s really going on.

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And I will say this to you. A lot of people don’t understand this when there’s a single parent involved and only involved that will cause depression as you get older. Because, because the child will say, what’s wrong. Come on, somebody what’s wrong. What with what? Me? Okay. How come my mom don’t want me? How come my dad don’t want me? My friend’s parents are involved. You know, my friend’s parents were there, but my parents, I only have one parent.

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So that could cause a depression right there. All right. Next question. What should I do with parents that don’t listen to their son. They don’t see you for who they are.

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It’s a man really specific question.

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Alright. Rutgers will Madame assemblies. I believe what they’re trying to. Yeah. Translations are amplified version, sir. What’s your, I guess if you’re a grown, if you are an adult that has parents and how do you, how do you deal with those parents? Who only see you? Got it? Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. All right. So, so, so, so I’m gonna take a step back then take a step forward.

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Okay. Number one, sometimes older parents will only see you as a child, if you haven’t taken responsibility. Okay. In other words, if you still standing in their home and not paying no bills, their progress says you as a child. They didn’t like that response. I mean it, if they’re still driving you around daddy, 17 years old, alright, shiny. He leg.

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I gotta take it to work. Okay, dad, you know, then that’s a good possibility that they could treat the child. Now on the other end, though, if you are responsible and you are doing you’re right, there’s good chance that your parents have not accepted that you have grown. Okay? And in that case, your job is to do you and your job is to not look for their affirmation. Cause you may not get it. Your job is to do what you can for them, where they allow.

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And this is most importantly, you’re not working the appeasement. That’s very important because sometimes what grown children will do, they will try to please a parent and the parent is not moving. Not budging how they feel. They’re stubborn, they’re bitter. They hurt. They don’t know about life. And so, so nothing you do will appease them. So your job to keep it moving. Because right now that parent is just stuck in a mind frame and our mind frame.

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I hate to say it probably won’t ever move. So again, your job is to be the best a grown person. You can be respectfully, but again, some parents are just stuck in their ways and your job also, lastly. Okay. Most importantly, I don’t know what the word earlier, I’ll say the word again. Your job is not the cycle. What they’re doing to you, to your children. That’s very important. All right, sir. Next question. A followup to that question and I think you might’ve already answered it.

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Okay. Should I talk to my parents? Even if they’re stuck in there, you know what? There’s nothing wrong with starting a conversation, but the songs you can goes left, leave it alone, just leave it alone. You know, honor your mother and father. That’s one of the commandments, the 10 Camaro. So it’s the only father and mother and that, and, and that discussion may not ever happen, but it won’t be because you didn’t try to start it. All right. So as long as you’re trying to start the discussion, and matter of fact, I’m getting more of these reconciliation counseling sessions where the grown children are trying to reconcile with their mother and fathers.

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It’s very powerful, but it’s also was willing before. It’s, it’s very time consuming because it’s a, it’s a, it’s a long, it’s a long journey because things have just been there for such a long time. But the good news is someone wants to stop the cycle. Next question, sir. Okay. All right. So, so again, those are good questions and about parent talk, but again, it is understanding that the focus can not just be on yourself now.

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Apparent again, I’m talking to you, you’re gonna understand you leaving a legacy. Okay? Okay. Okay. I’m gonna start this and then we’ll finish it. And, and segment three, you are starting a legacy. Now I’m 55 years old. I pray, God, give me 30 more years in Jesus name. You know, I don’t know how long you going to leave me here, but you know what I’m doing. I’m really trying to work on my legacy. You know, legacy with my children, you know, legacy with my new fiance, you know, legacy with the church, God has given me legacy with my counseling practice that God’s given me, you know, what are you leaving behind?

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You know, the worst thing that can happen to you parent is that you see your child parent, like you parent them. And it was in a negative way. That that is one of my worst fears is that I’ll see my son and my daughter, when, when I have grandchildren will parent, they will parent my grandchildren. Like I like, I parented them. So my job is, you know, what, what legacy am I going to leave behind? Because again, it’s the parent talk.

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And now if you don’t have the talk, then you really are setting up your son and your daughter for defeat, because guess what? You brought the man. Oh my God here, Lord. Thank you. So, so I’m gonna say this and then we’re going to segment three. So you brought them in the world, right? All right. So, so guess what? They are a cup last. Good. They are a cup for you. Alright, we’ll come back and we’ll finish talking about the segment real raw with dr.

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B is real@gmail.com. That’s D R B I S R E a l@gmail.com. Now back to your virtual relationship counselor, here’s more of dr. B. All right. I hope you guys enjoyed this segment about parent talk and that we ended up talking about the cup. All right. So let’s break down the word cup. All right. So see, you gotta be careful. Okay, parent.

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Alright. You gotta be careful. Okay. You, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, you got to be careful what you put in your child’s life. Okay? Cause if you are not care, what you put in their life is going to come back and bite you. Okay? You, you have to understand that, that I have to be again, not trying to be their friend. Okay. But I’m trying to guide that child into the right place. All right. So it’s being careful. You put another color here you is umbrella.

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Yeah. You are their umbrella, right? Your job is to keep them covered. Okay. It ain’t funny now, but my daughter, she was like 14, 15. And so she told me to take her to a party. So I was trying to be helped and all of the pastor, but I am a Paso Jami here. So I took it to party and you know, nosy me, newsy me.

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I stayed with potty. Yeah. I stayed for that day. And so I didn’t wreck, you know, I haven’t been to a party about 20 years. I never been to a party baby. So all of a sudden they put the chairs out. I said, Oh, they’re going to play musical chairs. Oh, I surprised. So as they put the chairs out, Hey, come these wet back 15 years.

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I’m trying not to curse. Y’all 15 year old guys sitting in chairs. They head come. These girls give them lap dances. I said the devil’s a lie because my daughter was nine. So you know that did, I took up all those chants and put them back the bullet to my daughter said, listen, y’all got, tell her, Hey, they kicked me out.

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Yeah. They kicked me out. But my daughter was covered that day. Yeah, here. They kicked me out. Yeah. I’m still in counseling for that one, but I don’t care. I covered my daughter. Yeah. She could’ve got raped that day. Yeah. No, no, no, no. I covered my daughter. Yeah. Alright. P you know what P is? I know, you know, it’d be a patience.

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You gotta be patient. Okay. You, you, you, you gotta be patient with your children because someone was patient with you. I know parent. You don’t remember when you were a handful. I know you don’t remember when no one couldn’t stand you. I know you don’t remember when your middle name was. I can’t stand it. I can’t wait to his grown. I know you don’t remember the hard time you give your mom on your there. I know you don’t remember the time you had your mama been crying. I know you don’t remember the time your daddy was up three o’clock in the morning waiting for your button to come home.

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I know. All right. So guess what your parents give you. Patients give you boy, patient give you girls patients. All right, because they need you. Cause you’re the cup. Okay. They are a cup and it’s really deciding what you put into their body. Okay. Cause if you don’t decide that you’re gonna be in trouble. Yes. CP. Yes, sir.

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You go into depth about punishment of children.

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Well, that’s a good one. That’s a good one. Alright. So you know, everyone’s different, but my thing is okay. And I’ll be very broad, but also very Pacific. Let the punishment all right. Fit the crime. And also also very important. Can we do some investigating?

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Alright.

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My parents did not believe in investigating. My parents did not believe in. Can we investigate this? Let me put the light on you and let’s get fingerprint. Let’s get infrared. Let’s get law and order dumped dune. And then that’s one thing you need to do before you do the punishment. Can we do some investigating? Okay. Let’s find out the circumstances. Find out what’s going on. Let’s find out. Did you add to their crime?

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Ooh. Maybe because the reason why your son was in the car with a guy that got pulled over because they were drunk is because your son got tired of waiting for you after two hours and you didn’t show up. And so the friend came and took the child home. Instead of taking them home, they got drunk. And now the child is home and you, and you want to punish the child. Oh, can we do some investigating? Alright. So once you investigate, then you fit the punishment to the crime.

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And I will tell you this right here as a counselor, it can’t be the same old dang on punishment every single time for every single crime, because you’re not teaching your child how to be fair. Okay. So it’s really investigating and then let the, let the punishment equate to the crime. Yes. EAP. That was a good, that’s a very good question. As a followup to that question. Yes, sir.

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How do you feel about, well, what we, what we would call spanking? Well,

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It’s not what I say, what the Bible says. You know, the Bible said spare the rod. I don’t show the Bible, but the Bible does say that it’s better out than, you know, spar the child. Alright.

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Bishop what’s that scripture.

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Okay. Hang on. Let me see if I can find it in this time constraint right here, because it’s really saying that when you do not give appropriate action. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Proverbs 1324. This is the Bible of judge Proverbs 1324. It says he, that spareth, his rod hated his son, but he, that loveth him chastise him be times.

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All right. So in other words, if I love my child, I’m not going to say it’s all right. It’s all right. It’s all right. It’s all right, because I’m giving them a Rose colored glasses. Okay. And I’m really not preparing them for the real world. The real world is where it should be is that there are consequences of your actions. So if I’m not using some type of punishment again, is it the rod every single time? Of course not. And I definitely don’t believe in doing the rod to the point that you are drawing blood and you are pulling welts on your child.

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Now, back in the day, that was a sign of honor by the parent. You see the weapon, that child boy head. I did that. Well, that was back in the day. You better not do that. Now go, DTLP down your back in the second. But I am saying is that you use wisdom, okay? You wisdom. And I really believe that really? Everything think about it. Most kids who act up you ain’t gonna like this one don’t really want,

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You want,

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They want your attention. And sometimes what kids will do since, since they can’t get your attention in a positive way, they get your attention in. Then what? In a negative way. So it’s really, again, it’s not what I say, what the scripture says. And I believe the word of God. But again is how about this? How about this one? Okay. How about this one? I’ll give it to you. So if God gave me grace, Then the parents should give their child grace as well.

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Yes, sir. Next question. In what way do we approach while a lot of questions about children’s day, huh? I mean, Oh, glory to God. Go ahead, sir. Our children about racism. Wow. That is excellent question. All right. So really, really, I think we preached about this a couple weeks ago. Racism is taught.

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Okay.

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So you can’t worry about what someone else has says, parent, you gotta make sure you’re teaching your child love. Okay? You’re teaching your child that I look at you based on who you are, not the color of your, what your skin. So that’s how you deal with racism. It’s teaching your child to look at people for who they are. And also racism is also saying, being quiet when things are done, what wrong. Okay. That’s a problem. A formal racism is when you see something being done and you don’t address it, you don’t say anything about it.

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Well, well, guess what? By you being quiet. Guess what? You’re in an accessory to the crime. Yeah. And as when people come up with the word white privilege, because you’re seeing things being done wrong, but because you are the same color, the other person who’s causing the pain, you get quiet. I’m sorry, sir. I’m sorry, mom and dad. You teaching the child to do racism. All right. That’s a very good question. All right. People, I was surprised about how many questions about parenting, but we give God glory and honor, because our job is to be real raw is to cover all topics.

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In my private counseling practice, men are often troubled when they arrive for counseling sessions.  I generally never start with them per say; I first look into the lives of their individual fathers.  Many times as is the father, so becomes the son.  A father is the compass for his son’s life and how sons may live.  I am in no way discounting mothers.  Many great men of our time were led and fashioned by the love of mothers who did everything to help their individual families survive due to the absence of fathers.

The chances of men that become absent from their male children’s lives are high because men may have experienced the absenteeism of fathers in their personal lives.  There has to be a revolution that says in essence, for every child that is produced, a man must be responsible and help rear that male in the points as a good citizen. The curse or cycle of non-functioning fathers must cease.

Having a father, however, does not guarantee greatness especially in cases where verbal or mental abuse is occurring on a daily basis.  If the father has a hypocrite demeanor– meaning in front of others he is “father of the year” but behind closed doors he is hateful and disrespectful– this is worse because the son has to decipher between what he hears and what he experiences.  Additionally, if the father is dishonoring a son’s mother… the point is what a son generally sees, he will do as well.

The long, overdue time has come for reconciliation between fathers and sons.  And yes, it is fathers who must start the healing process, not defending what has been wrongfully done but repenting to sons as much as possible.   It will be up to sons to accept, forgive, and move on, however it is the job of fathers, to best of their abilities, to start a process toward healthy, unified living between fathers and sons.  Let us be compassionate enough to consider that the unforgiving son may be repeating lessons learned from his father as well.   Fathers must begin to be the ideal compass and road map of forgiveness to help sons heal from pain.

Fathers, it is time to heal!  Yet many men do not understand how to heal without having good counseling.  Often, the reason why there is no healing is because a father may not have healed himself from his own father.  Yes fathers must heal so that we can help our sons thrive.  Fathers forgive your fathers.  There are high chances that our own fathers had issues we know not of.  It is hard to change the mindset of self if forgiveness toward our own, individual fathers for what they have done is not had.

Lastly, fathers that have passed from this dear life, who left behind sons also having sons, must reconcile all the more on all levels despite the death of his father before him.  The point is, by any means, make every effort to forgive, heal and reunite the relationship between fathers and sons.

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How many couples have been hoodwinked into only focusing on events leading to the wedding day, but forgetting about the important details of marriage thereafter? If couples take the same energy and passion that is placed into their wedding day, and house that same synergy into their marriages, then we may begin to witness the “until death do us part” again in this day and age.

The majority of wedding day events is successful because of the time, planning and money that are driven into the wedding day. Couples may place all of their eggs in that one basket of having a wedding day that many may speak on. Once couples are married, however, many times the passion, energy, and harmony come out of the relationship and the marriage becomes confusingly scrambled. The couples are no longer working with compassion toward a “major event”. The marriage there after should be the major event that all are working toward!

Marriage is work and play. Most couples focus on the play and not the work– the wedding day was fun! The wedding was full of energy! The wedding was full of smiles and love filled the air. Yet for many within the year, the thrill is gone. Why is that?

I, personally, advocate every couple to have a marriage therapist in their lives. We are certain to have a primary care physician for ourselves and our families, but we do not have a primary care consultant for our marriages. We often wonder why marriages fail. This could be mainly due to the lack of attention, energy, focus, and counseling that is needed to help facilitate the interweaving of man and woman into each other’s worlds. I hope and pray this mind frame changes in order to have a more perfect union. We can succeed in relationships one to the other. We can have prosperous marriages!

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The physical DNA of a father and a mother not only runs in their child, but also a parent’s emotional DNA runs in their child’s veins as well. Things we hate and do not like about ourselves have some bearings from our parents. This is often shown more in situations where fathers are absent from a child’s life. When a child has an absent parent, he or she will frequently have issues because the child is defined by both parents. When two come together to create life, they should also come together to create the being and personality of the children they have and rear. Without both parents in a child’s life, there are risks that the child will experience identity issues. Why? Because the missing parent who could have given direction and insight into a child’s life, was nowhere to be found.

A parent that leaves a child to fend on his or her own probably had the same issues handed down to them. This scenario, many times, creates a cycle that will continue to the next generation. We must place a stop on such events. Parents must have insight and probe into themselves enough to heal the pain of their own childhood so such pressures are not repeated passed down to their children.

Sad to admit, but corrupt behavior of a once child who is now grown into an adult may not change until the offending parents have passed on. It is weird yet makes sense. As long as the “bad” parents lives and breathes and does not demonstrate change that the child is able to see, then the child may continue down a destructive path, just as the parent who demonstrates such behaviors.

Our society, as a whole, must start to heal from the open wounds of our parents. The scars must become the healing of tomorrow. I must admit that the craziness we see in our society is a direct point of fathers and mothers creating monsters by their own selfish, emotional actions. We, as parents must realize, that our children not only feed from us physically, but also mentality and emotionally as well.

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A spouse wants to be and feel the essence of Love and the characteristics of the same, even in instances where hurt and pain occur. Many times the spouse who has erred runs from the spouse of whom he or she hurt. The spouse may see his or her wrong but do not see the pain and hurt of the spouse who too experiences what the other has done to place upset within their union. This bleeds more self-points of selfish activity.

In order to heal, each spouse must pour themselves into each other. The thoughts and movements should be about the spouse who is hurt as well as the one who has offended, or we risk selfishness running through the relationship. That selfishness makes all involved cold and more distant from the other.

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