Ep 216: Building Powerful Father-Child Relationships with guest Aaron Bryan

Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker

Dr. Meg Meeker

Kids & Family, Education, Parenting, Self-improvement

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Does this sound familiar? You've been told that spending more time with your child will strengthen your bond, but despite your efforts, you still feel a disconnect. The pain of longing for a closer relationship with your child while constantly wondering what you're doing wrong can be overwhelming. In this episode I’m joined by Aaron Bryant, a passionate advocate for father-child relationships as he guides fathers to mend broken bonds and foster open communication with their children. In this episode, you will learn how to: Strengthen your bond with your child through shared experiences. Foster open and natural conversations with your child, creating a safe space for communication. Build a strong and secure relationship with your child based on trust and affirmation. Gain practical strategies to build and nurture strong parent-child relationships that will last a lifetime. TODAY'S GUEST(S)Meet Aaron Bryant, a key figure in Family Lines, an organization dedicated to enhancing the father-child bond through intentional connection and open dialogue. Aaron has played a vital role in the creation of video curriculum that invites families to engage in authentic and meaningful conversations. Through his work with Mending Lines, Aaron has witnessed the profound impact of father-child bonding experiences and is passionate about empowering dads from all walks of life to take the necessary steps to strengthen their relationships with their children. His expertise and genuine dedication to the cause make him a trusted authority on the subject of fatherhood. FROM THE PRODUCER Dr. Meg just launched "Simple Discipline that Works," the ultimate course on discipline you'll ever need! If you enjoyed today's episode, kindly consider sharing it with a friend, and be sure to subscribe to remain consistently updated with our newest episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Parenting Great Kids. I'm your host, Dr. Meg Meeker, and today we're going to be talking
0:06.4	to dads, one of my favorite topics. My guest is Aaron Bryant. He is Director of Family Lines.
0:13.5	It's an organization that provides experiences and resources for dads and their children
0:20.2	to connect on a deeper level. That sounds really fun. Being in the wilderness,
0:25.3	fishing, doing all sorts of things, and having your kids with you, and connecting them,
0:30.9	and learning how to relate to them better. Fly fishing is at the heart of what we do. It's a
0:36.9	multi-generational experience. You can be athletic, and you can be completely non-athletic.
0:43.2	You can be young, middle-aged, older age, and it brings people together in a way that causes
0:49.5	this beautiful interaction. And then you get to go chase these fish on different rivers in the wilderness.
0:55.9	Welcome to Parenting Great Kids. Here's your host, Dr. Meg Meeker.
1:01.4	Aaron, thanks so much for joining me today. I'm honored to be here. Thank you for having me.
1:06.9	Talk to me about Family Lines and what it is and why it was started.
1:14.5	Family Lines was began by my really good buddy, the founder, John Haggadorn.
1:19.1	In 2010, we had served at a youth ministry called Youth Dynamics for 10 years prior to that.
1:26.1	And the goal was to share the gospel with these kids, and we'd take them out into the wilderness.
1:31.1	They would have these experiences alongside us, and then we'd sit around these campfires or beside
1:36.2	the river, and they'd share about these milestone moments in their lives. And a common story started
1:42.1	to pop up. John kind of started tuning into this story. I had heard it quite a bit, and it was
1:47.9	this milestone experience around the greatest influence in their life was a father.
1:53.3	But more commonly, it was a father that was not present. As John listened to that, and as I heard
1:58.1	that, there was this desire that he had to say, you know, sitting around here in the story, there
2:03.9	is more to this story as a high schooler or a junior higher. This young man or this young woman
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