A father strengthens his children’s competence. He forms lifelong healthy attitudes to work, along with serious habits of work.

He teaches respect for rightful authority. He insists that his children respect and obey him and their mother. He knows that when children fail to respect their parents, they can later clash with all other forms of rightful authority — teachers, employers, the law, God’s law, and their own conscience.

A father teaches his children ethics and gives final form to their lifelong conscience. He shows his children how to comfort themselves justly and honorably in the world outside the home. In his children’s eyes, he is an expert on fair dealings and personal integrity in the workplace and community.

A father builds healthy self-confidence in children. As a father, he corrects and encourages, and he helps his children to learn from their mistakes. In this way, he leads his children to form a realistic sense of their strengths and limitations.

A father leads his children to adult-level sound judgment and shrewdness. He helps them to use their brain to frame questions and answers logically, to think ahead and foresee consequences, to assess people’s character and values, and to know malarkey when they see it.

A father provides an attractive example of responsible masculinity. He acts as a model for his sons’ growth into manhood. And he conveys to his daughters (most often unconsciously) the traits they should look for in judging the character of men their age, especially suitors for marriage.

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