By Beleaf in Fatherhood
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This season in our family is one of coaching and guiding. I’m trying to impart on my children the lesson that serving one another in our home is an important part of how we take care of each other. As far as I am concerned, cleaning skills are social skills. When my children leave my home some day, I want to know that they not only know how to take care of themselves, but the people around them. Theo has a new cleaning routine and it’s giving me cleaning motivation! Watching them grow, learn, prosper, and taking responsibility brings so much pride to my heart. Watching Theo rise to the occasion and feeling like some of my coaching skills are helping his character take shape is an immeasurable gift.
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welcome back to belief in fatherhood my
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name is belief
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and uh we tell real stories of
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fatherhood recently i’ve been washing
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the kids feet and i wanted to update you
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on how they’re doing with some of the
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challenges i gave them doing the foot
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washing
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uh theo and uriah both got their feet
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washed i challenged ryan to clean his
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room i tried
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challenged theo to clean the bathroom
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all by themselves uh
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and they kind of stepped up man and so i
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wanted to show you that
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check it out
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can you tell the camera what you’re
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doing today
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cleaning the bathroom you made shoes so
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when you get inside can you spray it
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down first before you get in there
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it’s gonna be helpful what spray spray
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it down with water
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where’s your list of things that you
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have to do
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[Music]
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okay so you made your list you got all
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your tools and you’re gonna get it done
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meanwhile
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[Music]
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mirai is cleaning the room
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well i want you to clean up the floor
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first i want everything off the floor
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that’s the main thing
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and everything where it belongs okay so
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you see how
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all these papers are in this area you
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can’t put nothing on top of there so get
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rid of that
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see how all this trash is over here and
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all these pencils
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you can’t do anything with all this pick
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up all the colored pencils and put the
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colored pencils where they go
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they go in that tub right huh
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that’s what you learned that’s okay i
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feel like that’s a good lesson so why
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are you saying you can’t get out
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because i don’t want to
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get out of here with my bare feet and
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actually clean it
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and then clean it yeah you have to clean
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it that’s what happens
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that’s how i told you but it’s okay take
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those off and keep it going you’re doing
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great
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oh you got us a toilet now and look at
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the mirror my goodness it looks good
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jeez it looks like i did it
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[Music]
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wow dio that’s a good job on the mirror
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man
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theo can clean windows now
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[Music]
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right now is the season of guiding
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coaching you know
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we’re instructing them on which way they
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should be going we’re not
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expecting them to be perfect or or kill
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it
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and you know be flawless uh but we
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are expecting them to rise to the
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occasion and accept challenges that we
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do have
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coming to them um and you know they
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probably perceive that as not being fair
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right now but and i understand that and
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the challenges are definitely more
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difficult from one than the other
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um and that’s okay because um
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you know i do like some of you guys
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reached out after uh shooting the uriah
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video
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me watching this feeding they were
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saying like he might be 80d or something
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like that
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and so yvette and i are definitely like
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very like in tune with
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our children and know that like you know
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you know they may be something that
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needs more attention
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you know what i’m saying so we’re aware
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um but we’re not
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so quick to just be like i i diagnosed
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with you
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you with this um just because you know
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like i think we want to give ourselves
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time to see if like hey
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this is a season is it something he’s
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going through you know just as he’s
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developing and
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um you know brain developing or issues
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with um
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you know being upset about something and
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not being able to
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uh communicate it and so we’re very
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patient even though sometimes we’re not
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you know and i definitely got to work on
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that um that i’m challenging him
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but not exasperating him um but yeah
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like in the same with theo like you know
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stepping up and
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really trying to work hard to to make
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dad proud and
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all that stuff you know um i also want
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him to be part of his own work
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uh so there’s just a lot of guiding and
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developing right now
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uh as theo is eight and uriah is about
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to be seven
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guys um i was doing all these videos and
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that was like when you gonna watch my
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feet you know what i’m saying so
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my birthday is coming up so maybe we’ll
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do a little video about that
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uh and you know how we’ve been
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connecting lately but yeah man i just
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wanted to update you guys
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i hope you guys are enjoying the content
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i hope you guys are enjoying life
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you know and um using uh letting us be
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the muse for
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you know the relationships that you have
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you know that we’re not doing it perfect
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and that is okay you know and that uh
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you may be able to see where you can try
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harder and you may be able to see where
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you can
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you know work on your own self-care and
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really pursue yourself in certain ways
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uh so i’m very proud of you i’m very
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i’m very proud of you you know what i’m
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saying for choosing um
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you know yourself when you do choosing
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your family i think
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people who watch this channel know that
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family is foundation and so they
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prioritize it
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or they hope to prioritize it um and so
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i just wanna let you know i’m proud of
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you man
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um uh
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yeah i hope that your weekend is great
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thank you guys so much for watching
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protect your life keeping network
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popping if you’re fortunate enough
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to be doing life with someone else make
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sure you watch this video with them if
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they’re not around share with them see
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y’all next time
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[Music]
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peace
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