Questions:
(1) What's the best (or worst) lesson your dad taught you? If you didn't have a dad around, what's one thing you wish he would have taught you?
(2) What man have you had the closest relationship with in your life? What made it a close relationship?
(3) Read Proverbs 13:22 and 1 Timothy 5:8. What do these say about our responsibility to be providers? What do you think this looks like realistically?
(4) Read Proverbs 27:8. What does this say about the importance of our presence in our family? What do you think it means to be "present"?
(5) Read Proverbs 22:6. When you think about athletics, what are some characteristics of training? What kind of effort & energy does it take? How might that look in our training of kids?
(6) We live in a world that says everyone should just blaze their own path - "whatever is right for them". But, if Jesus' ways are the best ways, is that really the best philosophy? How could this affect how we "train" our children?
(7) If you're a parent, we only have so many weeks with our kids before they are on their own. What can you do to proactively be present in their lives while you still have time with them? Be intentional.
(8) Do an honest assessment - on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being not present at all and 10 being fully present - where do you think those closest to you would rate you? What's one thing you could do to move that number 1 or 2 spaces higher?