In our “Let’s Ask Dad” video series, these men consider the new meanings of love—and all its incarnations and depths— now that they’re fathers.
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In this installment of The Good Men Project‘s “Let’s Ask Dad” series, Ken Goldstein asks our panel to consider the idea of love and its many meanings before and after having children.
The answers vary, but they all point to the same ideal: children teach us what real, unconditional love is and should be, and some of us don’t even know what love is until we’re holding our new world in our arms after their birth.
Our panel of writers and dads Will Klein, Admond Fong, Asif Ahmed, Jared Mercier, and Thomas Olona recount their memories of those first days of fatherhood as well as the stages between then and adulthood.
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In this video series, The Good Men Project‘s Ken Goldstein interviewed seven dads across a spectrum of different backgrounds. They were different ages, their children were different ages–some had one child, some had several. They came from different backgrounds, income levels, commitments to faith, and hopes for the future.
What these dads have in common is a profound love for their children, deep reflection on the impact of their own fathers on their lives, humble concern about wanting to make consistently good choices for their children, and hope that their children will grow up resilient and caring in a world with unnerving obstacles at every stage of life.
“Let’s Ask Dad” is the conversation about fatherhood in the 21st century on The Good Men Project.
Ken Goldstein, The Good Men Project Board Member speaks to the experience:
“I sat in the studio and got to know each of these fine men through their detailed answers to our deceptively simple questions, I was struck by the commonality in their integrity, candor, introspection, and keen insights into the forever moments of parenting. Any single moment of a child’s development might or might not become a memory, but the memories each of these individuals recalled with resonance were as different as they were as human beings.”
Join us below in the comments, answering how you would describe your children and their reflections on you and your spouse—in as many sentences as you want.
Or tell us how you think your kids will define you—and outgrow your mannerisms— as they get older.
Let’s have the conversation no one else is having about dads in the 21st century.
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Are Your Children More Like You or More Like Their Mom?
What Advice Would You Give New Dads?
Describe Your Dad in a Sentence or Two.
What’s the Best Advice Your Father Ever Gave You?
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