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Dear Friend, Step Dad,

I hope this email finds you well.  In the step dad’s world life is sometimes very complicated.  There are so many times dads find themselves searching, or at least praying for a better way.

Have you been waiting?

As you may recall, in an earlier email I spoke about a 30-minute a day discovery, that could change your life forever!  The email went like this;

Dear Step Dad:

I discovered something that will blow your mind.

Something that in just 30 minutes a day for a week could change the course of your life and your step kiddo’s life!

Something so simple that you will kick yourself for not doing it sooner.

What if you could do this for 30 minutes a day and increase your energy and at the same time reduce your stress?

The secret is not really a secret….once you know it.

IT’s coming this week from Step Dad Secrets! Watch out for it!

Anticipating,

Emmett Pennington, Visionary Step Dad

What could be so simple as spending just 30 minutes a day and getting FAST and FURIOUS results, but not just FAST,

I’m talking life changing.  I’m talking about stress relieving.  I’m talking about something so simple that you WILL kick yourself for not doing it years ago.

ARe you tired of your step kid not listening to you?  Are you FED UP with them?

Here is what you do;

1. Stay tuned to the next email, the secret will be reveled.  Well its really not a secret…once you know it!

2. Pay attention to when it happens.  Is it when you get home?  Is it when they walk into the room?  What T.V. show do you watch every night to check out?

Then while we here assemble the emails and get you this simple 30 minute a day discovery, You need to;

A. Call someone that you haven’t spoken to in several months, just to say “hello.”

B. Notice how you put your shoes on: is it right first, then left?  Is it Left first then RIGHT?

C. Feel how this email feels in your body…anxious, hopeful, resentful…

And the most important in most cases…keep breathing.

The simple and most powerful technique is coming soon.  We have gotten many emails about it, but we can’t revel it all at once.  You first must follow the steps above and then…

Faithfully,
Emmett Pennington, Visionary Step Dad

 

Dear Step Dad:

I discovered something that will blow your mind.

Something that in just 30 minutes a day for a week could change the course of your life and your step kiddo’s life!

Something so simple that you will kick yourself for not doing it sooner.

What if you could do this for 30 minutes a day and increase your energy and at the same time reduce your stress?

The secret is not really a secret….once you know it.

IT’s coming this week from Step Dad Secrets! Watch out for it!

Anticipating,

Emmett Pennington, Visionary Step Dad

HO HO HO! Its that time of year, Christmas time! What present can I give to you that could give you lots of joy for the year? How would you like some Parenting Secrets from Santa Clause…

Santa’s Secret #1: You can’t do it all in one day. Santa and his elves work all year on toys and gifts to get ready for Christmas. Lets face it, there is a push to “Change your life in 10 days,” or to “instantly change your ways…” BUT, you can begin to change today, to improve and realize it takes practice and time to get it done. You can get closer with your step kids, but one day won’t do it. Santa’s number one secret is to work all year long on getting closer with your step kids.

Santa’s Secret #2: You can’t fly the sleigh by yourself, you need a team. The reindeers allows Santa to fly to deliver the joy to the kids. His team helps him. You need a team too! Your team can be the audio programs we offer and your team can by your kids themselves. I have witenessed step dads working against their kids creating enemies. And I have seen step dads develop a strong relationship where his step kids begin to help, and they become a team. When a step dad doesn’t allow his step kids to play any reindeer games, then they feel seperated and a negative energy shows up, so why try. Instead, allow them to play, and play games with them. They too can become your team.

Santa’s Secret #3: You need a goal in mind. Santa gets his elves to work all year long for one day. He keeps them motivated by knowing that Christmas is coming, all year long. To keep you going, you need a goal in mind. Start with little goals, like spending 30 minutes one on one with your step kid. You can go to the park, and if you do, don’t just sit and watch, jump up and down with them. OR take them to the movies and notice what they laugh at, what makes them turn their heads. You can begin to notice what they notice, a real key in learning their internal and external strategies.

Santa’s Secret #4: Don’t put poison lead in the toys, so don’t put poison in your relationship. I’m sure you have read or heard about imported toys having Lead paint in them, dangerous for kids. But have you heard about step dads that poison their relationship by words and their own behaviors? I saw one night how a step dad used such harsh words with his step son that his step son ran out of the room. I felt the negative energy in my body. I too left the room and later called out the step dad while we were alone. He didn’t have a clue what his words had done, his old habits where just that, habits. A way for him to fall asleep at the wheel and keep driving. Don’t poison your step kids. Learn new ways, and give them and yourself a chance!

Santa’s Secret #5: Don’t give your kids sugar an hour before bed. Lets face it, when you excite a child you have to let them have the time to enjoy the exicitement. Don’t promise them that you will do something and then the next day put it off because you’re tired or too busy. You will never hear anyone say on their death bed that they wished they had spent more time watching their favorite T.V. show. So EXCITE your kids, and let them enjoy the excitment.

Santa’s Secret #6: Gifts are about giving. Its funny as I think about my childhood how I don’t remember a particular toy I got or didn’t get. I do remember waking my mom and dad up at very early times in the morning because of my exitment. I do remember sitting on Santa’s lap for the last time knowing that Santa was real. I remember my family getting together for that day. And that is special. My kids don’t remember a toy they got a few years ago or one they didn’t get. They do remember going out and cutting down a Christmas tree every year and bringing it home. So give a gift to your step kids that they will remember every day; Give them a hug, even if it feels awkward. It starts with one little hug and then begins to feel comfortable for you. But, if you let the awkwardness hold you back you are not giving the gift. Give the gift of a lifetime. Give love!

Well there you have it. Parenting Secrets of Santa Clause. I hope you and yours have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Enjoy the egg nog and enjoy giving to each other!

Love.

Wishing you the very best,

Emmett, Visionary Step Dad

The holidays are here! The snow is on the ground, and the fun I had with my kids on the sled hill. Wow! And on that sled hill a lesson was given to me from my son.

I was reminded of what the Step Dads 101 Beginner’s Guide means to me last night while sledding with my kids. My son Myles sled down the hill, and after, had to climb back up the hill in order to do it again. Part way up, he stopped. He said, “I’m tired, I can’t make it!”

I was standing on top of the hill, and I knew what to do. I just knew. So I walked
down the hill and stood beside Myles and walked up the hill to the top with him. I didn’t hold his hand, I didn’t carry him, I just walked along side him and we talked.

You see my friend, its not about the end result, IT was about the journey. Myles alone was tired and couldn’t make it up the hill. But with someone next to him, taking the journey to the top with him, he was fine. We made it to the top of the hill together.

That is what Step Dads 101 Beginner’s Guide has been to me this year. When I was tired and wanted to do my old patterns, or when I got caught up in the day to day distractions of life; the audio program led me on the journey and my mentor and partner John Wingert allowed me to have a guide beside me. And when I wanted to stop because I was tired, I didn’t. Because like Myles, I had someone standing next to me.

When you order Step Dads 101 at the new, very low price, you have an opportunity to sign up for our NEW 10 Week One on One Program: The Step Dad’s Edge. So you won’t have to take the journey alone.

It has been a great journey this year in 2007. The audio program and talking with John is wonderful in that they gave me the strength to keep going when Iwouldn’t have if I were alone. I can’t imagine how 2007 would have been without us sharing this journey.

I’m looking forward to 2008 with you as we continue our journey.

Go to Step Dads 101.com and get the program. We made it affordable for you, so money will not be an excuse for you. Live your life the way you want to, with a stronger bond with you step kid! Make the choice today.

Just think how much more life will be enjoyed without the stress of raising a step child. I remember how it was for me, and how it is now. It is such a HUGE difference in the way I enjoy life now. My step son and I laugh together now and enjoy more of life.

This program can give you the opportunity to do the same. Try it today.

Sinderely,
Emmett, Visionary Step Dad

Step parents get such bad reviews in the press.  Like Cinderrla and Hansel and Gretel.  The step parents are viewed as evil.

And yet there is a ray of light, as my step son told me last night, that he thinks I am the best dad a son could have.  The scene was like out of a movie, or a tale.  We stood by a shelter that we had made, out in the woods, feeling the sun’s rays drench us with its last light before it set.  Allowing the sounds of the wind whistle and wash our entire body.  Feeling the smooth touch of the winds sooth our soul.  And such kinder words were never spoken in such a perfect place.

And I come back to the house and make the mistake of reading the news.

I’ve since stopped watching the nightly news.  I go to bed with a good book, or after a great hug from my sons.  A better rest than to watch the negative reporting before sleep.

I share this story because it has so many things wrong with Step Parents and the results.  The relationship that never was…the business that  gets in the way…and the want to control it all.  A facade is just that, hiding what is truly underneath.

NASCAR race fans have heard about the son and step mom feud for some time.  “The Wicked step mom” versus the true heir to the throne.  Sounds like a fairy tale, but this is happening today.

The back drop is if Dale Earnhardt Jr. could have driven his entire career for Dale Earnhardt Inc.? Dale Jr. has won 17 Cup wins, 22 Busch series wins, and 1 All Star race driving for DEI.

So why is Jr. leaving DEI? His record isn’t that bad, in fact it’s pretty good. A lot of drivers who have been driving for a decade or more longer than Dale Jr. would love to have his stats. Junior obviously has had some good equipment over the years. Nobody wins 17 races with poor equipment in a sport as competitive as this.

Enter the Wicked Step Parent…Teresa Earnhardt.  Teresa and Dale Jr. have had what has been described many times as a strained relationship. Apparently this is nothing new, but dates back to the time when Dale Jr. and his sister Kelly came to live with their dad and step-mom when Junior was still a young child. Relationships between step-parents and children are often strained. Heck, relationships between parents and children are often strained as well. Dale Jr.’s relationship with his father was often not a happy one in his teenage years. It was really only when Dale Jr. started driving and winning races that he and his father became truly close.

Dale Earnhart was a racer. He had little time for much else, for most of his life. His doubts about Dale Jr. early in Junior’s career have been documented in many places, but when he saw that his son was committed to the job at hand, he became his son’s biggest fan. Dale became not only Junior’s father, in a real sense, but his mentor, his teacher, and a boss that supported his son, the driver. Dale’s own career was reaching its twilight years, and I honestly think that he died a happy man, knowing that his son was going to be successful in this, the sport that he loved with a passion unmatched by almost all others.

Most people feel that if Dale Earnhardt were still alive, Dale Jr. would be happily driving for DEI for the rest of his career. Dale Earnhardt is gone though, and though his legacy lives on, nothing will ever bring him back. Dale Jr. is probably a different person in some ways than he would be were his dad still alive. But at heart, Teresa Earnhardt needs to know one thing. Junior can be a celebrity, and will continue to be, but in the end, Dale Jr. chose racing.

The interesting thing about this story, is that step families have struggles…and families in general have struggles.

So lets not believe that being a step parent is any different when dealing with frustration.  It is just the way a parent goes about it that offers the results.  Let it be a distance created or a more connected relationship.

How do you do this?  Start with learning the 25 Essential Factors of Step Kids’ Behaviors and begin to understand the connections more.

And remember, its not just because its a step family that confronts growing pains, its every family.  So, if you are a step dad, don’t just give up and hide your emotional connections because it becomes hard.  Learn some new ways and live.

Living it and offering it to you,

Emmett Pennington, Visionary Step Dad

I stumbled onto this writing during my research. And the vocabulary changing the ideas of Step Families so touched me I wanted to share it with you.

The following is from Kurt’s blog at, if you read this Kurt, thank you.

http://lifechurchamerica.zaadz.com/blog.

Enjoy the gift.

As a family impacted by divorce, our family has the added blessing of what has traditionally been referred to as “step family”. Well, there’s nothing second class about the people that have entered Warren and Grace’s lives as a result of their parents making the choice not to continue to be married. We’ve adopted a different way of talking about our mixed family which includes changing the very vocabulary we use. We’ve dumped the “step” qualifier in favor of “Bonus”. So, we don’t have “step” dads, moms, brothers, sisters or grandparents – we have “BONUS” dads, moms, brothers, sisters and grandparents!

We also have adopted the practice of not arguing over who gets the kids on what holiday, which is often a source of lots of antagonism and bad blood in family’s of divorce. We simply celebrate our holidays on whatever day works for the team that doesn’t get to celebrate the exact calendar holiday. So, this year, we had a really fun “Bonus Halloween” about a week before the calendar tells us to don our masks and mischief!

You can learn more about the concept of Bonus Families at:

http://www.bonusfamilies.com

~Kurt

Thanks Kurt. You have inspired me today.

Living it,

Emmett Pennington, Visionary Bonus Dad

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So the Cleveland Browns won their game yesterday.

The sports announcer reported that this is the first back to back games won by the Browns since 2002.

This just shows that the team doesn’t just give up. They keep playing week after week.

What if step parenting was like this. Sure you will be a step parent the rest of the child’s life, I’m talking about being IN THE GAME.

You see, I have talked to many step dads that gave up. That is to say, they opted out of their step kid’s life. When they married and the step kids didn’t listen and follow their orders, they thought that it was tough. So they forced the stuff to get done.

And the step kids began to distance themselves emotionally from the step dad. And the step dad began to distance themselves emotionally from the step kids. And at the same time, the dads began to get physical distance. It came out as being in a different room than the step kid. Going to be early to get away from the step kid. Working more hours, or just leaving the house.

What if we, as step dads, had to play EVERY play in the game! Even if the step kids talk back and challenge our authority, what if we huddled up and regrouped and changed the game plan.

At half time, talk about what is working and what is not working. And then decide on a revised game plan for the second half. And we go out and put it into action. And if that didn’t work, spend all week looking through our notes and deciding what worked and what didn’t work.

What a difference that would make. So here you go: to get ready for tonight’s game, get a notebook and pen. And then get in the game. Notice what happens tonight. Did you leave the room because you were frustrated? Did you send your step kid to their room? Did you drink more beers and watch Monday Night Football and check out?

You should note these down in your journal. These notes are important to regroup and decide what’s working and what’s not working. And checking out mentally with some beers and a football game, even though it takes you out of the emotions, is not working! You need to engage, you need to GET IN THE GAME! Don’t just check out and feel better for not arguing and letting the step kids out of your life.

Make an impact tonight. Start preparing for next weeks game. What if you spent a week on getting better? Learning more ways to communicate? Noticing more ways to say something?

Need a coach to help you out? We are now offering a 10 Week one-on-one coaching program called THE STEP DAD’s EDGE. Lets get together once a week and go over your game plan. Talk about it, find out what’s working and what’s not working and design a game plan that will work for you and your step kids.

Just like the Cleveland Browns’ showed in yesterday’s game…its never too late to prepare for you next game. And just like the Browns, you have to come out every week to play and spend every day preparing.

What if Step Parenting were like that? Get a game plan, execute the game plan and see what happens. IF it doesn’t work, don’t do the same things over again. Find a NEW GAME PLAN.

Get a NEW GAME PLAN at Step Dads 101.com and get ideas and strategies and learn the 25 Essential Factors to Step Kid’s Behaviors. And put the new plan into action and see the results.

See and notice what’s working. Then adjust.

Wow. What if Step Parenting was run like a professional football team. You would have to play your position EVERY week and prepare every day. There wouldn’t be a time to check out mentally or physically. You go in, learn the plays and go out and play the game.

You don’t sit on the sideline and do nothing. Even the guys that sat on the sidelines in the Cleveland Browns’ game knew the game plan. There is not excuse not to know it.

And if you are getting poor results, don’t go out the next game and do the same game plan. I don’t know how many step dads I’ve talked to who bitch about their step kids and when I dig deeper, the step dads are doing the same things over and over and over again. And the crazy thing is that the step dads are expecting different results.

I’m here to tell you that you don’t have to get the same results. You can get different results by doing something different. Getting the Step Dads 101 Beginner’s Guide is a good start. You can begin to build up your game plan and really start to understand your step kid’s offense and defense and understand your game better.

This is a start. If you want one-on-one coaching over the week, join our new coaching Program, THE STEP DAD’s EDGE. We can talk about what worked, what didn’t and come up with a new game plan and then you go out and execute it.

Then we talk the following week about what worked, what didn’t and fine tune it. Then you go out and execute the new game plan.

The next week we do the same.

Just think what impact this will have on your family! Wow! Improving week to week. And soon you’ll be winning your games with very little problems. You’ll be like Tom Brady, throwing Touch Down after Touch Down and not breaking a sweat.

He did it through preparation and going over game plans and finding out what worked and what didn’t and doing more of what worked.

What if Step Parenting was run like that? You could improve every time out. And soon have more control and better results.

The question is, when will you start?

Here is your opportunity to do it today. You can instantly down load Step Dads 101 Beginner’s Guide and get started today.

If you want our one-on-one coaching, THE STEP DAD’s EDGE, email me personally and we’ll talk about getting it started.

If you want a quick solution to getting your kids to behave, we offer an instant down load on the the Step Dad’s 7 Command Secrets. If you’re going out shopping or eating with the kids, you’ll want to get this one. Listen instantly and know it for tonight.

And for those “special plays” in this game…what if you want to know if your step kids is lying to you, or if you really want to know where they’ve been…then instantly down load Step Dad’s 911 60 Second Lie Detector. A skill every step dad should know.

The bottom line is: GET PREPARED! Don’t give up because you had a bad streak. Don’t check out of your step kid’s life because it’s not going well.

The Cleveland Browns won by preparing, week after week, day after day. And playing every game. You need to play every day. You need to be the Step Dad everyday! You can’t do it just when it feels good, you need to do it every play!

Here’ s your opportunity to evaluate your game plan. To design a winning one and fine tune it.

I’m looking forward to next weeks game of the week: two undefeated teams, The New England Patriots versus the Indianapolis Colts. Tom Brady versus Peyton Manning. Because I know that these two will have prepared their game plans and they show up every play to play the game.

As a Step Dad you need to show up every play too! Make an impact.

What is your game plan for today?

If you want one, get one here….Step Dads 101 Beginner’s Guide to the 25 Essential Factors of Step Kid’s Behaviors.

Living it,

Emmett Pennington, Visionary Step Dad

emmett@emmettpennington.com

I learned HTML and designed my first web page. Step Dads 911.  Its A very important product and a skill I believe every step dad should know! It has saved my step son’s life already.  My web guy kept putting me off, and I had to get it up, so I learned took a crash course in HTML.  That’s how important I think that this skill is.  And I put it up to give you the opportunity to learn this important skill.

What did learning HTML teach me about Step kid’s behaviors?

I learned that 3 colors can give you so many alternatives!

RGB is the most common way of defining colors that are meant to be displayed on screen. These 3 colors are Red, Green and Blue.

The RGB system assigns brightness values from 0 to 255 to each of three colors; red, green, and blue. By mixing the red, green and blue components in varying degrees we can create millions of color variations.

Lets apply this to how you can connect to your step kid.

Think about the different variations of brightness of 3 colors, RGB. It gives us millions of combinations. Now apply that to the combinations of the 25 Essential Factors of Step Kid’s Behaviors. These factors can either free you or hold you hostage. You either freely live or hold yourself in a prison of frustration. Learning how they impact your kid’s life will save your’s and impact their’s for generations.A lesson from HTML allowed me to rediscover how powerful these 25 Essential Factors are to my life. If you are interested in learning more and if you are interested in freeing yourself, get the Step Dads 101 Beginner’s Guide to the 25 Essential Factors of Step Kid’s Behaviors.Once you begin to play with the 25 Factors you will begin to notice the different variations that can take place and begin to almost read their thoughts…

You can then begin to understand their world and connect through your world. A beautiful and powerful thing begins to happen. Step Kids become easier to communicate with and to understand. You begin to regain control.

Through our discoveries with NLP, Communication skills and Native American Wisdom, we have discovered the 25 Essential Factors to a Step Kid’s Behavior. You can use these 25 Essential Factors to understand and connect more with your step kiddo and in the process you can begin to understand more about you.

It will change your life and change your step kid’s life too, through the impact you will have on them.

I wish you well with the path that you will choose. One way is to choose to get Step Dads 101 Beginner’s Guide. With whichever path you choose, make an impact today!

My impact is here, and at Step Dads 100. This is where I share My Vision for the next 100 years.

I just finished making up a song and singing it with my son, before he had to go off to school. Think about the impact that this will have on his kids.

Make your impact today.

Living it,

Emmett Pennington, Visionary Step Dad

Here’s a challenge I found on the internet while researching.

The article is in gray. My comments are after in black.

“Well we are a typical blended family, I understand that there will be problems just due to that fact, but all my step kids I get along with and love like my own but one of my step children is 14 and he has always been tough to deal with, his mom doesn’t like to argue with him, nor due I, but I don’t give in, but she will no matter if it is right or wrong.

He has lots of anger issues we don’t know why. His mom is the legal guardian and she will not take him to a counselor. when he comes over to our house he is very argumentative with everyone in the house except for his grandpa who also lives with us. I fell like i have to watch him like a hawk because if he get into an argument he usually tries to settle it by hitting the one he’s arguing with.

I feel he will seriously hurt someone. The youngest is 9 and he watches this and now he is starting to act this way. I live with him and can usually get him to understand that this behavior is wrong. I have no way of enforcing a grounding or any discipline. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!”

There is an outside influence that you will need to consider, his other mom. With that said, all parents have to deal with outside influences, friends, T.V., other moms and dads. So don’t let that stop you or hinder you from being the authority.

Your 14 year old will act differently at your house than at his other house, IF you know how to play the game.

What game?

The Game of the 25 Essential Factors of Step Kids Behavior. Simply stated, there are patterns a step kiddo runs that will dictate how they respond and behave.

From your description, it sounds like this 14 year old runs INTENSITY. Simply put, he acts and responds with intense behavior. Like hitting, screaming and arguing. I would bet he eats the same way at the dinner table. The way he grabs his food, the way he chews. And this is the pattern that you will need to play with in order to get his attention.

This is where it gets tricky. Most parents will think that if they act with INTENSITY, that they will feel mean and look mean. This is a total fabracation and way off base. In order to make this real for him, you have to be INTENSE! You have to use the same patterns that he uses to make things real in order to make it real for him.

From you description I can just imagine the scene. Billy argues with his brother over a t.v. channel. You enter and tell Billy, nicely and smoothly,

“Now Billy, you will have to wait your turn…”

And Billy responds with continuing arguing with his brother and you.

You then repeat yourself, maybe several times,

“Billy, stop. Billy? Billy, stop and wait your turn. Billy, its not your turn. Billy…Billy, its not your turn.”

That pattern is FREQUENCY and Billy will not get it. He will not get it because his patterns is INTENSITY! He will not get Frequency because that is not his pattern. Get it?

I suggest you put on the INTENSITY mind set and go,

“BILLY! IT! is NOT YOUR turn! BILLY! LISTEN NOW! You CAN WATCH IT! When its your turn LATER!”

And watch Billy listen to you. Or he’ll walk away out of the room. Hey, its a step, you stopped the commotion. And he’ll challenge you again just to see if you really got his pattern.

And when that happens, you use INTENSITY! AGAIN! GET IT!

That’s my take on it.

Now you can either do what you’re doing and get the same results or…

You can do something differently and get different results. And there is a pattern to it. We cover the 25 Essential Factors of Step Kid Behaviors in Step Dads 101 Beginner’s Guide.

Some sneaky Command Secrets to get your kids to behave quickly can be found at Step Dad’s Lost Command Secrets.

Get one or both, just do something differently. Start with playing with Intensity. This free information will rock your world. And its free to use. Get it?

Enjoy your new found sense of control. There is a pattern and once you learn them life with step kids becomes a lot easier.

Living it,

Emmett Pennington, Visionary Step Dad

P.S. More daily doses of life can be found at Step Dads 100. Enjoy.

The following article is from Step Dads 100. View of my Vision for Step Dads and families for the next 100 years. I have hope that step dads will step up and not just settle. But do something differently that gets results. If not with Step Dad’s Products, then do it with something. Don’t settle when you can make a great IMPACT! Think Seven Generations and ACT today.

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“Between the date you’re born and the date you die, there is a dash. What happens on that dash is up to you.” Diamond Dale Baird

What will your impact be in 100 years? What will you put on your Dash, what will it be? Native Americans have a saying, “Think 7 Generations.” When they gathered food, they would consult with the elders first. IN this way they would learn the impact of taking the food on the future generations. And how to get food while making the greatest impact on the future generations.What is you impact right now? Do something today that will impact your grand baby’s grand baby.You can do something. You can connect today with your step kiddo. And when they have a family, you can have impact two generations down. And when your grand baby has a family you will impact 3 and 4 generations down.But I don’t know where to start? You may think this, but instead of watching another episode of Survivor, read a book that can impact your life, listen today to Step Dads 101 Guide to the 25 Essential Factors and through this impact on your life, impact your next generation.

Instead of watching another version of Extra! and hearing about how Britney Spears lost her battle to see her kids, do something real in your life. Get some crayons and color with your kids. Want something free to do? Go into the woods. Get close to nature. And follow your kids. Their instincts are more natural than ours. Let them lead and get dirty.

Imagine the memories that your child will have if you go out and get dirty…build a shelter and sleep in it over night. That memory will last a life time and go on to impact their children.

Don’t know how to build a shelter…then contact me. We are putting together the Step Dad Weekend where we teach you and your child the skills of survival…the Sacred Order. Now that is impact! That is creating a memory.

Instead of sitting in front of the T.V. zoning out on another episode of Wheel of Fortune.

Or ask yourself this: What impact on my Grand kids will sitting in front of the T.V. watching another episode of Survivor have?

Very little.

The only question is, what will your impact be?

What will your impact be today?

Living it,

Emmett, Visionary Dad