RISE UP, DAD

Understanding Your Role

Fatherhood can be overwhelming and challenging sometimes, but it is also your most important job, and the most fulfilling thing you will ever do as a man. The impact you have on your children lasts a lifetime, good or bad, and we want you to know that you are capable of being the father your children deserve.

You have the power to make or break your family, especially your children. No matter what age they are, they care about what you think, say, and do. Your role as a father is to speak life into your children, to be their rock, their constant. Your children don’t need you to be perfect. What they need is for you to be present.

This isn’t just something we believe. Nearly 3 million children in the U.S. currently have a parent in jail or prison, and more than 10 million have experienced a parent’s incarceration at some point in their lives. Every one of those children knows what it feels like to grow up without their father there. Presence matters, and you have the power to make sure your children don’t have to carry that same absence. Fathers who have gone through TYRO Dads report real change: 97% say they came away with a renewed commitment to fatherhood, proof that showing up again is possible.

What Can You Begin To Consider?

How well do you really know your children, their fears, what they love, what’s going on in their world right now?How well do you really know your children, their fears, what they love, what’s going on in their world right now?

Are you being honest with your children and family about who you are and where you’ve been, instead of hiding from it?Are you being honest with your children and family about who you are and where you’ve been, instead of hiding from it?

What would it look like to give your children real responsibility, and trust them to grow through it?What would it look like to give your children real responsibility, and trust them to grow through it?

What are you actively doing to protect your children, the way one father built his own framework around Faith, Fairness, Friendship, Forgiveness, and Fortitude?What are you actively doing to protect your children, the way one father built his own framework around Faith, Fairness, Friendship, Forgiveness, and Fortitude?

Are you present with your children even when it’s hard, or are you checked out?Are you present with your children even when it’s hard, or are you checked out?

What is one mistake from your past that you’ve let define you, instead of learning from it?What is one mistake from your past that you’ve let define you, instead of learning from it?

What does the father you want to become actually look like, starting today?What does the father you want to become actually look like, starting today?

These questions are intended to help you reflect on your own approach and identify areas where you may be able to grow.

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