Antonio Time: Ways to Strengthen Your Father-Son Relationship

The father-son relationship can be complex. Fathers and sons often times have different interests can find it hard to relate to one another. Sometimes dads and sons feel competitive against one another (BUT NOT IN THE CROMARTIE HOUSE) Me and my boys are best friends, I lead by example and teach my young men to communicate and protect the women in our home.

As I have watched my own relationships with my sons, thought about my relationship with my own father, and observed many fathers and sons interact with one another over the years, I have identified some key elements to creating and building a strong father-son relationship.

Make one-on-one time. We need to make time for individual relationships with each child. So make sure that you program some one on one time with your sons.

Focus on the spiritual. Helping a son be grounded spiritually is an important role for a father. Whatever your faith tradition, help your son understand the deeper meaning of life. If you don't have a faith tradition, help him reach for his inner self and try to have a perspective that will help him look at things deeper than on the surface. As a young man gets in tune with nature, God and himself, he will have a pattern in his life that will help him endure hardship and thrive personally.

Don't be afraid of the big talk. Take the time to teach your sons about girls personal space, sex and relationships. Being open to having these conversations will help your sons develop better attitudes about sex and girls in general. With the ever-increasing presence of sex in the media, on the computer and in conversations with their friends, you will find your relationship not as strong as it could be if you avoid talking about these difficult subjects and let them develop their attitudes about sex and relationships from other sources who may not share your values.

Focus on the positives. Our children are bombarded with negative messages all around them. Just watching commercials on television will create a sense of inadequacy in our sons. They probably are not quite as strong, they may not have six pack abs or be quite as good looking as the guys they see on television. As fathers, we need to catch them doing things right. Feeding them constant reinforcement will help build relationships of trust and overcome this constant barrage of negativism that they confront daily.

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