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What Does It Take to Be a Great Dad? Action

If being a great dad doesn't come natural to you, welcome to the club. No guy has fatherhood totally figured out, and that's okay. What matters are the small, consistent steps you take to show your kids you care and you are there.

Bestselling author Jay Payleitner shares 101 creative ways you can love, teach, and lead your children. Unleash the great dad within when you

• stop and catch the fireflies, even while wearing a three-piece suit
• give horsey rides instead of spending money on Disney World
• trigger traditions (If you don't keep them, who will?)
• explain syzygy (Don't worry, it will be explained to you first.)
• teach your kids how to love and be loved by knowing the source of love

...and try 96 other amazingly dad-doable tasks

Join other aspiring awesome fathers in walking the talk every day in simple yet powerful ways.

Jay Payleitner is one of the top freelance Christian radio producers in the United States. He has worked on Josh McDowell Radio, Today's Father, Jesus Freaks Radio for the Voice of the Martyrs, Project Angel Tree with Chuck Colson, and many others. He's also a popular speaker on parenting and marriage and the author of dozen-plus books, including the bestselling 52 Things Kids Need from a Dad, 52 Things Wives Need from a Husband, and 52 Things Sons Need from Their Dad; he also created "The Dad Manifesto." Jay has also served as an AWANA director, a wrestling coach, and the executive director of the Illinois Fatherhood Initiative; he now partners with the National Center for Fathering, whose efforts he fosters and promotes. He and his wife, Rita, live near Chicago, where they've raised five great kids and loved on ten foster babies.