Don Hickman | Building BETTER Men

Lead by example. Then follow up with a verbal for max effect. Yesterday at the splashpad: Rock climbing wall was closed. I took my son and asked the lifeguard kid what was up with it. “There’s been bees around for a couple weeks, kids have been getting stung. We’ve been asking for spray but no one’s got it.” So I walk over to my wife. “Can you watch the kids, I’m gonna run out and get bee & wasp spray and take care of the rock wall nest bc clearly no one else is going to.” So I ran to the dollar store and grabbed some spray. Came back and took care of business. My son watched me take care of a problem that multiple life guards didn’t take care of for a couple weeks. Then he and all the other kids, and of course myself, got to play on the rock wall. So then, on the ride home, I explain to my kids that if no one is fixing the problem, and we are able to, we should fix the problem. So the kids saw it, and they were told that it was intentional, not just a coincidence or accident. In that conversation my son says “yeah it seems like our family is always using our big brain and the rest of the world is using small brain.” You’re not wrong kid. It’s on us to show the world what right looks like.