The 7 Essential Dad-Skills

Replace Your Children’s Misbehavior with Cooperation. Increase the Odds Your Children Will Make Good Choices Even When You Are Not Around. Build a Strong Family Where Your Children Learn and Practice Good Values

By: Richard O'Keef

Narrated by: Zachary Locklear

Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

Is this audiobook for you? If you have come to a decision that what you are doing is not working, or that you could use some ideas on how to be a better dad, you’ve come to the right place.

What you can expect: This audiobook shows you the most effective ways to address your children’s unwanted behaviors, such as disregarding rules, ignoring or refusing to do what you ask, fighting with siblings, disrespectful backtalk, and telling lies. It shows you the best ways to keep your children from going down dark paths leading to drug and alcohol addiction, pornography, teenage pregnancies, crime, gang involvement, and other paths that result in unhappiness.

Improve relationships: This audiobook shows you the best ways to strengthen the relationships you have with your children. When you have good relationships, your children will be more receptive to your teachings, and more responsive to your correcting. Relationships are what bring you the most joy and fulfillment as a dad.

How it works: You will be introduced to four emotional needs that drive all children’s behavior. When you meet these emotional needs, three things happen:

• Behavior improves naturally. Behavior becomes a problem when these needs go unmet.
• The odds increase that your kids will make good choices when you are not around.
• The values and expected behavior you teach will be received more willingly by your children.

You will meet these needs by practicing The 7 Essential Dad-Skills.

You will learn fast: the author deliberately made this audiobook easy to listen to so you can digest the entire audiobook in a short amount of time, making it possible to see the results quickly. He has taken the most effective dad-skills and made them easy to understand with step-by-step instructions that work fast. Now you need only go to one place to find the best information on how to be the best dad you can be.

©2022 Richard O'Keef (P)2022 Richard O'Keef

Better relationship for all

It is amazing that there is so few requirements to becoming a parent. This book provides clear advice, examples & dialoged instructions to become a better parent. These skills can be applied to all relationships. They are not just skills for parenting but if applied, will help in all relationships. It gives me new ways to respond to situations as teaching opportunities with natural or logical consequence rather than punishment that destroys mutual trust, respect, responsibility and love.

Incredibly Valuable - all parents should get this!

I’m a busy young father with 2 young children under 3 years old. I’ve listened to the book during my spare time at work, and I’m about halfway through the book so far and I’ve already learned so much! This book has incredibly valuable content and my relationship with my kids is already improving because of it!
I have also had the opportunity of knowing the author and have to say he is a great man of high character. I highly recommend his counsel found in this book!

Parenting skills that work

In The 7 Essential Dad-Skills, Richard O'Keef provides a simple yet powerful approach to parenting - focusing on four emotional needs that drive all children's behavior. When these needs are met, parents see improved behavior in their children naturally, and the odds increase that they will make good choices even when their parents aren't around with them. They're also more willing to receive and learn valuable values from their parents. This book provides realistic examples and step-by-step accountability tools that any parent can implement in order to create a better environment for their family. This is an essential guide to becoming the best parent you can be!

Valuable and easy to follow guide

Well narrated, easy to follow and the steps were logically placed. Having had troubles with our teenage son, this step by step guide had lots of useful information presented in a comforting tone. Non-preachy which is what I loved about this above other audibles I have listened to on this subject. Every chapter I managed to learn something new so it's well worth a listen.

Great book

Children don’t come with instructions.
This is a really informative book about how you can teach your child life skills and the right behaviours to take them into adult life. All kids will go through stages where they need your help to bring them back to
Themselves through discipline and guidance. I particularly liked the advice on how to help sibling disagreements - these strategies have really helped my family

Become the Best Father Possible!

Parenting is the most important job we have, yet there's no degree required. Candidly, this book could also apply to mothers, because having mom and dad on the same page is helpful. There are so many skills in this book that should be a minimum requirement of proper parenting. Boundaries for example. This creates discipline and develops values in their lives. And values will clearly influence behavior. This was my favorite skill because if your children develop your values, they will be in alignment with yours and behavior will follow. The three steps to correcting behavior together seem so simple, but also powerful. I have a sales background and "handling sales resistance" is taught almost identically to these three steps. But who thinks of applying sales skills to your parenting style? Ultimately, the seven skills taught in this book will help you give the values to your children that they need to live a successful happy life.

Essential Dad’s Skills

I loved this impressive guide. It perfectly explained the way that a Dad should be. This book will teach Dads how to replace their children misbehave with cooperation, increase their odds, and build a strong family bond inside home.
Dads will learn about four emotional needs to drive their children to understand their behavior, to have a better relationship with your children.