What Dads Answer that AI Cannot
A “Success” Story
If I asked you who the best athlete is in the world, names like Curry, Ali, Paquiao, Jordan, Federer, Schumacher will likely come up. In the Olympics though, there is none who has more gold medals than Michael Phelps with 23 in total.
From the outside, he looked invincible, but on the inside he was crumbling. Admitting to battling with depression and taking alcohol and drugs in 2012, he said he was a trainwreck. In an interview, he traced this “weakness” to when his father had left him when he was 10 years old.
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What AI Can Never Answer but Dads Can
The world is abuzz with AI fever. Anything in this world can be answered by AI with just a quick prompt. Knowledge in the power of our hands. Despite technological advances in machine learning and a massive amount of processing power, it still can not address one fundamental question in the heart of every child – Am I loved? Am I valued?
These same questions crippled Michael Phelp’s heart and inevitably caused him to sink to that dark stage in his life. According to surveys locally, the leading cause for depression is fear of judgment and approval of others. Social media has amplified this to an even higher degree.
Fathers are important and need to nurture different aspects of a child. A child is more than a sum of his body and behavior. But a beating heart inside with constant questions of being loved. Behavior is just a symptom that traces from the heart. It needs to be filled in one way or another. If not answered by Dads, they will be beholden to people outside and seek the approval of others.
How Dads Build Resilient Kids
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A child goes through different stages and experiences in their lives. The level of their self-image and value is based on how us fathers relate to them or not relate to them. Do they only feel loved when they do something good? Or do they feel loved and liked regardless of their “performance” Are our bonds with them always connected? Or are there now hurts from words said in a fit or emotion?
We need to find ways to always connect with our kids and let them know not only through our words, but through our actions and reactions to them. Are we able to reflect God’s unconditional love to them?
When we do this, we can build kids who are secured because Dads were able to answer the question in their hearts, and know that they are loved with no conditions attached.
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