As a father you have one job: protect your family. The modern world is attacking you from all angles. Everything you consume is designed to make you weak. You know this is unacceptable, and you want to defend yourself and your loved ones But what can you do? Where do you start?
You start here: The 5 Principles of Paternal Protection:
-Moral
-Physical
-Financial
-Emotional
-Educational
As a father, these are your domains of protection. Master each area and become the model of virtue your family needs to prosper.
Fail? Your journey will be painful.
Principle 1: Moral
The only thing separating your family from the depravity of the modern world is YOU.
Enemy media constantly pumps our households full of toxic messaging. Every day we're tempted to stray from what’s right and true, drifting ever further into darkness.
How do you fight back? You must STAND for something. Write down your personal values, define them, and let them guide you to greatness. Your values determine the type of man you become. They inform your decisions and serve as signposts on your path
Strongly held values also inform your beliefs. Believe nothing and you are a fool. Believe everything and you’re a fool. But arrive at your beliefs through fearless searching, with your values as your guide? The world opens up for the taking.
Principle 2: Physical
The world is a dangerous place and while it has become relatively safer over the preceding generations, that’s no excuse for your inability to physically protect your family What would you do if your family was attacked? Are you prepared?
It’s your duty as a father to be FORMIDABLE. You must be as strong as your genes will allow. You must know how to operate weapons You must know how to fight. Everything you’ve worked for could be wiped out in an instant.
Start right now, today, because it will take years to become sufficiently dangerous. Train with people stronger than you. Fight with people tougher than you. Frequent your local shooting range. Because one day it’s going to matter, and everything may well be on the line.
Principle 3: Financial
Simply put: you cannot afford to be broke. Without the necessary precautions, all it takes is one emergency, medical or otherwise, and your family will be imperiled.
A father's love alone will not pay the bills So what can you do?
It isn’t complicated. Earn as much as you can. Spend as little as you can. Then diligently save and invest the difference. Pay yourself first every single day. Start while you’re young, develop the habit and it will never leave you.
Automate as much of the process as possible. You’re blessed to live in an age where you can click a few buttons on your phone and secure your family’s future forever. A small dose of discipline will set you miles ahead of your peers, and that is a reward in itself.
Principle 4: Emotional
A man must control his emotions. It’s the mark of an immature man to display his emotions indiscriminately. To raise his voice, to lash out This man is not ready for leadership. If you can’t even manage yourself, how can you possibly manage others?
I am not suggesting you repress your emotions. Rather you must learn to control the time, place, audience, and manner of their expression. BIG DIFFERENCE. You can’t control how you feel You can (and must) control how you react to those feelings.
You will be tested as a father. You will face trials, adversities, and tragedies. Your family will look to you in these moments. Will they be comforted by your stability? Or will they be swallowed whole by your unchecked emotional riptide?
Principle 5: Educational
The modern world is predicated on lies. We’re told black is white, up is down, ugly is beautiful. And if we don’t believe it? If we don’t conform? We risk the loss of status, livelihood, or worse. It’s your job to DISPEL these lies. It starts with YOU.
It’s a long journey to the truth. But once you’ve found it? Never let it go Internalize it, let it inform your decisions. Then TEACH it. You must be the light that leads the way. And you must shine so brightly that you snuff out the endless barrage of modernity's deceptions.
Study, practice, teach. That is your directive Teach your family how the world ACTUALLY works:
-God First
-Power
-Wealth
-History
-Nutrition
-Influence
-Attraction
-Human nature
We're fed constant lies about all of the above. If you aren't your family's compass, they'll surely get lost.
Conclusion:
Your family WILL lean on you. Such is your duty as a man. And everything they need from you ultimately ladders up to protection. Can you shelter your family from the dangers of our modern world? THAT is your role.
Start now because your family is depending on you.
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
Nick | Catholic Manhood