Podcasts · Front Row Dads with Jon Vroman
Learn the Dad Ritual That Will Build Your Kid's Confidence in Only 6 Minutes
· 6:04 · Episode 562
Episode Learn the Dad Ritual That Will Build Your Kid's Confidence in Only 6 Minutes
Most of us tell our kids they did great. Almost none of us tell them what we actually saw.
It's one of the practices Jon Vroman is best known for around here, and the whole thing fits in a sentence: catch them doing the right thing, then make a record of it. The reasoning is solid. Peter Drucker said great leadership brings out strengths until weaknesses stop mattering. John Gottman can predict divorce with about ninety percent accuracy largely from the ratio of positive to negative interactions, and the related research landed near three positives for every one negative. So the mission isn't to point out where people are failing. It's to amplify the good loudly enough that it quiets the rest.
IN THIS CLIP:
- The research behind it: Drucker on strengths, Gottman on the ratio, and the three-to-one line
- The ritual itself: one photo a week, printed, with a handwritten note on the back
- What he actually wrote to his son about missing the ball and trying again
- Why he started doing it for his wife too
- The neighbor's six-year-old who came to apologize, and what Jon did instead of just accepting it
- Why fatherhood means mentoring young humans anywhere, not only your own kids
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