Being a dad is a complex job that requires a variety of skills, a profound understanding of life and the ability to know when to help and when to not help. If you’re honing your dad skills, you should be prepared to offer a number of basic aptitudes that will help your children function as they grow into adults.
Here are five of the essential skills you’ll need in the future.
Cooking
Every dad should be able to cook a meal for his family. You can start with simple fare, such as bacon and eggs for breakfast or grilling a steak with salad for dinner.
As you become more comfortable with the culinary environment, you can begin to add more options, such as spaghetti and meatballs, roasted vegetables or lasagna. Dads can use the opportunity to have kids help with the preparation, as they begin to learn their cooking skills.
If you don’t have time to cook during the week due to work, consider offering to make breakfast or dinner on the weekends.
Auto Repairs
Dads should also know the primary functions of the internal combustion engines and the most likely mechanical problems drivers are likely to encounter. Skills should include adding or changing the oil, changing fuses, ensuring proper fluid levels and making friends with a good mechanic.
Of course, these skills will also be helpful if you decide to take up a hobby like go-karting. You can make many of these tasks easier with Streeter Super Stands and other equipment that will get you back on the track faster.
Home Repairs
Dads also may the individual primarily charged with doing home repair tasks. If you don’t have these skills at present, you can learn a great deal from available online how-to videos.
Fixing a dripping faucet, repairing a window screen and unclogging a toilet are few a few of the most critical skills you should learn. You can take on additional skills as you become more familiar with tools and their use.
If you’re curious about where to start, there are any number of YouTube videos for fixing common household problems. Also, the next time you hire a repairer, try watching them work.
The steps to fixing a toilet or a sink may be more comfortable than you might have thought.
How to Clean House
Another essential skill every child should learn is how to clean up after themselves and how to clean up the general environment for others. This will help kids as they grow and move off into dormitories, their apartments and then, there own family house.
Vacuuming, sweeping, dusting, washing the dishes and doing laundry are essential skills that will serve them well as they become responsible adults. Fathers have always been known as fonts of knowledge and the keepers of the best advice for life skills.
Dads who take the time to brush up on these five skills will be ahead of the game of parenting and will be able to help their children mature, both emotionally and experientially, as they grow into adulthood.
Are there other skills you think a dad needs to have? Able to leap tall buildings at single bound perhaps? 😛 Please write them in the Comments. Thanks.
