15 Minutes

I planned to take a step away from my blog this week but something came up and I had to speak on it.

Men we have to realize the image we create to our children and others who watch us. And sometimes that means we have to redirect our peers to be better men to their/our children. Men help boys. Men help men. Boys help men. Simply put, iron sharpens iron.

We cannot allow our fellow man to fall and we see them getting ready to jump. Or they've fallen and we don't help pick them up. Being a family man my perception is more keen. My kids at home and the kids I teach are important to me. I have to raise the kids in my house and i have to raise the kids in my classroom. It's a duty I feel we all are called to; whether we like to want it or not.

I am involved in a blended family dynamic and work with kids involved in the same dynamic or worse. Men and women we must all work together to raise these beautiful human beings! Men we have to set the footing they'll stand in.

It takes 15 minutes of consistency for you to build a child up but a second to tear down the chance for a child to be all they can be. And before the child makes the decision of who they want to be let them see who they are made from and build off that. Whether they are in your house or not spend time shaping them, teaching them, and listening to them all the time!

Our boys and young men, our girls and young women, want their daddies to be fathers no matter their location. We don't realize not making a choice is worse than making a choice and choosing wrong. They just want us to make a choice; if we mess up we mess up. Being a man is living with a bad choice, learning from it, and moving forward. Deciding to do nothing is the worse thing we can do.

I say to every man with a child, no matter their location to you, take your 15 minutes of consistency. Show them you want them to be made in your image like God made you in His. Help shape them and not let them search for Eden in the wrong places, no matter their age.

All it takes is 15 minutes.

- Peace & Love