When kids enter your life, you don’t have to earn their respect. As their dad, you have it. From the moment they set their eyes on you, they admire you and see you as a bastion of strength and authority, and, unless you show them otherwise, of courage and heroism. You might not feel like a hero but my exhortation to you is live like you are one. Be the man they want you to be; it is, more often than not, the man you want to be—and can be.
