Flip’s Tips on MARRIAGE & PARENTING | Flip Howard | Episode #132

Flip Howard is a dynamic entrepreneur and Catholic leader who is a role model for Catholic husbands, fathers, and now grandfathers. He has seven kids and three grandkids, and he shares a wealth of knowledge and wisdom in bite-sized nuggets.

Flip shares his family journey, starting with the first time he met his future wife on the campus of Franciscan University in Steubenville.

In his classic and practical way, Flip reflects on marriage by pointing out that he knows people who are happy, people who are miserable, people who have little money, and people who have a lot of money and that he cannot find a correlation between these factors. However, he points out that almost no one with a good marriage is unhappy and almost no one with a bad marriage is happy. His advice is to marry well and prioritize marriage over the things that come and go, like jobs and money.

Flip goes on to share a set of parenting reflections, including:

• You have more control over the things in your kids' life than you think you do.

• The issues you are trying to address now should have been dealt with two years ago.

• You should live a life that inspires your kids to want to live like you. Be joyful.

• He wants his kids to be disciples to all nations… once they begin adulthood. Before that, he encourages close oversight to build up virtue and foundation before releasing them to the world.

• People overestimate the parent influence and underestimate the peer influence.

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