Today on the EXPECTANT tour, we’re visiting my friend Kathy Howard as she highlights the book. Kathy calls herself a “confused southerner.” Raised in Louisiana, she has moved with her engineer husband around the U.S. and Canada. She says “pop” instead of “Coke” and “you guys” as often as “ya’ll.” But those things are just superficial – she’s still a southern girl at heart, and she now calls Texas home. Kathy and her husband have three children, a son-in-law, and one precious grandson. She writes to have something to do while she drinks coffee and eats chocolate. 😉 She is a Bible study gal who goes deep in her books, including her latest, Flat Faith. I’d love for you to go meet Kathy at www.kathyhoward.org.
With all the focus on moms when trying to conceive, being pregnant, or bonding with a child, new dads often feel left out. As the world focuses on the glow of the mama and the hopes of her heart, daddies sometimes take a backseat they can’t climb out of. While we’re teaching first words and expressions, we’re also teaching an attitude towards baby’s father. Let me share a segment from the devotion called “Baby Talk About Daddy” in EXPECTANT.
If we aren’t careful, the language lessons we continue to teach may include disrespect toward the very daddy who grew teary eyed at the first coos and calls of your once tiny child. How will you talk to baby about daddy? Ephesians 5:33 gives us the bottom line, spelling out a gentle command for our good, like we will spell out gentle commands for the welfare of our babes; “. . . let the wife see that she respects her husband.” Whether the diaper is like we want it, the food is where we direct it, or the football game is the priority we hope for, we are called to respect the men who are our husbands and the fathers of our children. Little fuzzy ears will be listening to our every word, our every tone, our every intonation. They’ll know the message of our hearts, and they will take it into theirs as their baby talk grows up.
5 ways to talk to baby about daddy
