You will be emotionally impacted by your kids. It will impact you. You will be ecstatic when you see

your kids walking in righteousness.

What's up, guys? Welcome back to you Five Minute Fatherhood. So we, I host a Father's Midrash

every week on my front porch on Tuesday nights.

And right now we're going through the book of Proverbs.

And what we do in that is we just read a couple of chapters and then have a discussion,

just a free flowing discussion interpreting the different verses and asking how they apply to

our lives as fathers.

Man, there was a discussion that I

thought was interesting that we did last Thursday. We were reading Proverse 23. And this discussion

erupted around how emotionally bonded should a father be to his kids. There's really an interesting answer that culturally, we really don't want to be

bonded. It's really almost considered codependent for you to be emotionally impacted by your

children. And one of the fathers in our midrash pointed out that this doesn't seem to be what the Bible is teaching in Proverbs 23.

So let me read this and I'd love just to get your thoughts, Jeff, on this.

So one of the things that Solomon is saying, and he says things like, this is verse 5, my son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.

Ooh, what is that? So you're saying you're saying you know he says my inmost being this is verse 16 will exalt when your lips speak what is right really

i mean so you keep reading this um verse 19 hear my son and be wise and direct your heart in the way verse 22 listen to

your father who gave you life and do not despise your mother when she is old um verse 24 the father of the

righteous will greatly rejoice in other words okay I'm emotionally impacted by what my kids

decided to do he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Verse 25, let your father and mother be glad.

Let her who bore you rejoice.

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