Your son is running an experiment on you right now.

He does not know that is what he is doing. But he is collecting data every single day. How you talk to his mother. How you handle money when it is tight. How you respond when someone disrespects you in public. How you treat people who cannot do anything for you. How you act when you think nobody important is watching.

He is deciding what a man is.

And you are the primary source material.

That is the weight of fatherhood nobody puts on a greeting card. You are not just raising a child. You are writing a definition. A living, breathing answer to the question he is going to carry into every room he ever walks into – what does it mean to be a man.

You get to answer that question with your life every single day.

Not with speeches. Not with lectures about how he should turn out. With how you actually live when the pressure is real and nobody is grading you.

He is watching. Make it worth watching.

Stephon Rudd

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