re: What Are Some Stuff Every Daddy Should Teach His Son(s)?

How to: Pray, Respect women, respect elders, use his manners, think before he acts, hunt, fish, fight.... I can go on for days. I've got a hell of a start on my 4 yr old. Best advice that I can give any dad is spend as much time as you can with your boy. Learn to have patients and even at a very young age if he's interested let him help you. I get "wow" pretty often when friends see what my boys capable of already.

Knot tying. Specifically ropes.

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I pray my kids will one day thank me for this too because as teenagers they sure do bitch about it.

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When I first started this thread, I was sort of BSing around, but this is a more serious response, but I can't imagine what it must be like raising multiple teenagers. Just looking back to when I was a teenager, I didn't appreciate anything. And I am pretty sure just about anything my parents told me/wanted me to do, I would bitch about it.

My dad passed away a week before my 20th birthday. It wasn't until several years later when I realized just how little I valued time with my parents during my teenage years. As teenagers no one wants to be around their parents (that seems to have changed a little bit, it seems like many parents also have a friendship with their kids), so I wish I had the opportunity to be around him once I started to mature, but I am sure your teenagers will eventually realize what you have done for them.

They will eventually understand you are one of the main reasons they are who they have become. As long as you instill the right values in them, it will become part of who they are.

There were certain things my parents instilled in me that I just grew up thinking that's what everyone is suppose to do or act. Of course, as a teenager, I probably challenged those things, but today, at the age of 38, its part of who I am.

This is just an example, but wearing a hat at the dinner table was a huge no-no. As a kid, it was something I was told you are not suppose to do.. One time, as a teenager, I had a hat on and went to the table with an attitude "its just a hat, why does it matter if I eat food when its on my head". My dad jerked it off my head and I really have no idea what he did with it, but I never saw that hat again and he told me "I am the parent, I don't have to explain everything to you in order for you to do it. You just do it", but now its something I am big on.. Without thinking.

If it is a group of people at a table and I have a hat on along with a few others, I will go to the table then remove my hat as to show "this is the appropriate thing to do". If its a casual setting and I am with friends, its not like I expect them to take off their hats, but its just in me to at least "lead by example". Either way, I am sure there will be more rocky years to come with teenagers, but one day they will thank you..

The proper use of the English language.