June 16, 2024 • 37 mins
Dr. Galati starts the program talking about Father’s Day and the role they have in the health of their family. He has Author Justin Batt join the show to explain Daddy Saturday how he got involved. Mr. Batt also talks about childhood obesity and the parenting problem causing this.
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It is Father's Day, and Ido want to spend a little bit of
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time this Sunday on Father's Day talkingabout the role that fathers have in the
health of their family. Now,my own father who lived to a marvelous
age of ninety seven, and hewas blessed, and I would say all
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of us were blessed in that henever lost his mental faculties. He was
alert, oriented, was caring forhimself. He had only about a three
or four week decline illness before hepassed away two years ago. And so
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it was great that we were ableto experience Dad literally to the very end,
and that was a gift, andreally the same thing for my mother,
who had died a few years earlier. She was eighty eight years old,
and again there was no dementia,no Alzheimer's, no neurologic or cognitive
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disorders. She also had a relativelybrief illness that ended her life. So
I feel absolutely blessed that I hadmy parents, literally to the last breath
that they took. And for manyit's quite sad that their parents have this
long, prolonged decline that for manycould last for years on end, and
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it is a never a never endingdrama of pain and suffering watching watching a
loved one slowly, slowly pass away, and I really do feel sorry for
them, But at the same time, I feel very fortunate as to what
I had. But let me justtell you about my dad. This first
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segment to talk about my father,and this is the role model that I
desperately try to live by. Andthis is a role model that all of
you listening, all of the dads, the fathers, the grandfathers that are
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raising children, the role model thatwe need to follow. Now, my
father first and foremost put his family, my mom and the children on the
front burner. He sacrificed his careerto a sense in order to preserve the
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family, to preserve the stability ofthe children, to preserve the stability of
my mom, who's taken care ofthe children and saw to it that the
institutions that were near and dear toour family. It was school, it
was the church, It was theneighborhood. It was our neighbors and friends,
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the children's friends, the other relativesthat we had in the area in
New York. And he realized,and he outwardly would talk to us at
the kitchen table when he would getan opportunity, a promotion, and a
promotion meant moving up in the company, making more money, having a bigger
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house. He would sit with usas well as my mother at the kitchen
table and lay out the pros andcons to us moving from our house on
Long Island, maybe having to moveto Michigan, having to move to Buffalo,
having to move to New Jersey,having to move to Colorado. And
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even when we were nine, ten, eleven, twelve years old, the
conversation at the table, the kidshad input. The kids had input in
helping my father make a career changeand He never looked at all of these
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declines that he made. He neverlooked at it to say, hey,
because you did not want to moveto Montana, I am not making as
much money, I am not beingpromoted. Because he realized that the integrity
of the family was going to leadto health and happiness and the flourishing of
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the family, the flourishing of thechildren, that we were going to do
well. Now, there are certainlya million and one examples of families and
children that moved around because in themilitary, they moved all around because of
their father's job. But for thechemistry of my parents and the chemistry of
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the kids, it was their decisionto stay put and continue to focus.
Because he realized if he was totake these promotions, he was going to
have to travel. It was goingto be more time away, and more
time away you know, certainly meantdad was not going to be around.
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So he put an absolute premium onthe health and wellness of the kids,
health and wellness of my mom,the integrity of everybody on being around.
And that does not mean you donot better yourself because you just want to
stay at home and play catch withyour kids. That's really not what I'm
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saying, But I think there hasto be the emphasis that as a father
you are overseeing the integrity of thefamily. And moms do the same thing,
of course, but it is keythat the dads put the family first
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because you see so many times thatso many dads are sidetracked with their own
gig, their own thing. Theyare selfish, they are not thinking of
their family, not thinking of thelittle ones, not thinking of the teenagers
at need time, and it alltrickles down to the health and wellness of
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the children. So that was thatwas in a sense my dad. He
loved his family and he did everythingto make sure we were healthy. We
ate well, we exercised, wewere mentally intact. We had good psyche
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and it was a real blessing.All right, final final words on Father's
Day coming up after the break.I'm doctor Joe Glotti. Don't forget doctor
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at our Instagram page, YouTube,Facebook, it's all there, Doctorjoglotti dot
com. All right, so happyFather's Day too, all of the dads
that are listening tonight, and wesay a prayer for the dads that we've
lost. And I do think thatthe role of the father in the health
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and wellness of your family is key. Now here we are, this is
a radio about health and wellness.We are not necessarily talking about the family,
though we talk about the family,which is very important, but the
health and wellness of our family,the health of our children, the health
of your spouse, and it isvery key. It is very key with
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regard to the role of the dad. And so first and foremost there is
the responsibility of being a role model. So children mirror what dad does.
So if dad is not exercising,Dad is gaining weight, Dad is smoking.
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Dad is sitting around the house drinkingafter he gets home from work,
or he drinks all day long,or on the weekend he gets he gets
smashed and is intoxicated and is talkingloud. That is not good. That
is not a good example. Becausewe know without a doubt young adults underage
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drinking, People that start consuming alcoholat an early age will have a very
perilous time. There's something about theyoung brain exposed to alcohol. And this
is science. This is not me. I am not part of the anti
alcohol lobby, but biochemically, physically, the brain exposed early to alcohol has
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a much higher risk of becoming addicted, having abusive alcohol tendencies. And so
if you have a dad, andagain I am not here to blame dad.
I'm here to say, let's spinin the round. You have the
opportunity to be a role model,so be careful, be watchful of how
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you are conducting yourself. Same thingwith exercise. You know, I know
plenty plenty of friends where the dadis exercising, he will take the kids
out with them, either going fora run, a walk riding their bikes.
They go to the gym, theygo to the pool, they go
kayaking, they play tennis, theyplay golf together, whatever the sport may
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be. If the dad is there, there is the opportunity to take the
children along so that they instill inthem at any age, whether they're young
children, they're middle school, highschool, college, young adult. You
have somebody that is leading you toa certain way of life that is conducive
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to good, good healthy and goodwellness. And then we get into the
food. All right, So youknow me, I am a foodie.
I am interested in food. Ibelieve that the pathway to good health is
through your mouth or through your gut. Okay. And so if you have
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a dad that is picky with food, not eating constantly eating out fast food,
really expecting anything from anybody in thehouse with regard to good nutrition,
eating properly, Let's cook meals athome. Let me show you how to
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cook. The kids are not goingto mirror the beneficial the beneficial strategies,
but rather fall into well. WhenI was growing up, my dad ate
fast food. He ate deep friedchicken every weekend. He drank and ate
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cake on the weekends, not thathe cooked, He showed us how to
cook. We have memories of cookingtogether, creating meals, eating as a
family. Okay, and these otherreally destructive behaviors that a lot of men
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have. I see it. Theseare my patients. So instead the role
has to be as a dad,take stock, take inventory of what you're
doing. And so it's not somuch about you. Are you exercising,
are you eating well? Are youlimiting the amount of alcohol? Are you
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not smoking? Yes, we're interestedthat our adult men are healthy, no
doubt about that. But what impactare you having on your children and your
family? Are you creating a healthfulenvironment? It really is something that we
don't spend enough time talking. Andthe father is under attack from many different,
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many different pathways, and I thinkit's important that we place emphasis on
how men take care of themselves andhow the children, how the children view
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this. We're asking a lot.There's there's no doubt about it. On
this Father's Day, no less.Okay, So anyway, we're gonna take
a break news, traffic, weather, Maybe we'll hear about the astros coming
up in a moment. Doctor JoeGalotti at the helm behind the microphone tonight
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as always. Doctor Joglotti dot comis our website. Stay tuned, I'll
be right back. Welcome back,everybody, Doctor Joe Galotti every Sunday,
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doctor Joegalotti dot com. Sign upfor a newsletter. All right, everybody,
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a total treat This week on theline, Justin bat, author of
the book Daddy Saturday, How tobe an intentional Dad to raise good kids
who become great adults. Man,if this is not right, up my
alley, Justin, welcome to theprogram today. Got a lot of good
to be here with you. Thankyou for having me. Well, you
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know a lot of people may think, okay, Daddy Saturday, what is
this all about? So really startfrom the beginning. What is Daddy Saturday?
And then how did you get involvedin this? Sure? So it
all started in my backyard with mychildren. I have four children now,
but about ten years ago, mywife and I were expecting our first child,
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our daughter, Hayden Olivia, andmy wife was a budding entrepreneur.
She was starting a couture bridal boutique. And as she started that business and
we named it after our daughter.Being the entreprene or that she was.
It required her to work every Saturdayin her store, being the busiest day
in retail. And so I foundmyself, as a young professional, home
with our two week old infant daughterat the time, by myself on Saturday
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all day. And we added threemore children to that, mixed three boys
in a row every two years,and it wasn't long before she was still
running the store and I was stillhome by myself on Saturdays. But now
I had moved my way up ina corporate career and found myself as an
overwhelmed, stressed out, just frustrated, tired dad who wanted more with his
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kids but didn't really know how todo it or what to do. And
so I just started to plan mydays with my kids and be intentional and
create a game plan for our Saturdaytogether. And it wasn't long before those
turned into some epic moments and memoriesand a lot of fun, and we
recorded them, put them on YouTube, started showing our videos, and people
started to ask a lot of questionsabout it. And I recognized quickly that
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the growth that I was seeing andmyself as a father and my children individually
and plucked as a family unit andour communication and the relationship was something that
I had something special. My kidsis actually named it Daddy Saturday by asking
for what we were going to domidweek. And it wasn't long before I
felt that I had a calling totake this beyond just my family and help
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other fathers who were probably struggling withthe same things that I was struggling with,
being tired, being intentional, managingthat tension between work at home,
and being the father that they knewthat they were called to be. Wow,
that is a great story. Wherewhere did you, uh, you
know, where did you pull theinspiration to really stick with this and not
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have the frustration, uh, sortof grow in and make this all turn
into a flop. You know,you stuck with it. Your your you
know it's been many years since youyou know, your kids are a bit
older now, but there's got tobe some internal fire that made you keep
going with this. Sure, SoI think, first and foremost it started
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with my own kids, and youknow, they they were great about holding
me accountable, and I set thebar pretty high, and we kept setting
the bar higher and creating more epicsSaturdays together, and so you know,
midweek they would start asking Dad,what are we doing for Daddy Saturday was
planned, you know, and Iwould try to keep it a surprise and
they would look forward to it,and we'd have friends coming over in the
neighborhood, kids and some of theirfathers. So you know, just the
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nature of the environment that we created, and I call it hype. So
on Saturday mornings a lot of times, you know, I'll get the music
planned and to get them out ofbed, we'll get we'll have pancakes slipping
and go run out and run throughlike a Daddy Saturday banner that we have,
and we make it quite an event. And they're eleven, nine,
seven and five at this point andwe still get hyped up for our Saturdays
together. And then beyond that,I think the next piece was when I
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felt that it was my calling andthat there was more here for me to
do, in more people to impact, and that why that I've now centered
on has really driven me to helpothers. And I think when you're giving
both to my children and now toothers, saying that's the driver and it
helps move forward or now I'll puta big caveat there, because by all
means, don't make this out tobe something where all those days have been
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perfect, right, right, there'sstill the days where I've been tired or
sick, or my grand plans thatI've made for our kids day together has
failed. Like I'm not handy.I'm the least handy guy in the world
probably, and so me trying toconstruct something like an obstacle horse. It
has filled more time than I cancount. But we still have a lot
of fun together, and some ofthose filled moments are actually some of our
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most special times we've had together.Yeah, you know, just just listening
to this and for all the parentsand the dads listening here and knowing this
myself as coming from a family wheremy mom and dad were very involved and
we had plans, and myself,you know, with my own family,
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I think the one word that sortof is a thread connecting here is passion.
You have to have passion with regardto one wanting to be that parent,
wanting to motivate, wanting to bea good role model for your kids.
A lot of this does not happenby chance, would you agree?
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Oh? Completely? And I thinkif you leave it to chance, as
we say in our household, thedays can be so long, but the
years are so short. We've gotjars full of pebbles that sit on our
mantle, and each of those pebblesrepresents a week that our child has in
the home. A child on averagehas about nine hundred, nine hundred and
thirty weeks in the home before theyleave for college or work or wherever they
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go after they turn eighteen. Andso that time is so short, and
if you leave it to chance,those days are going to go by and
you're going to miss the opportunities.And I think that's the one thing that
being intentional does, or having passionand in the space does, is it
helps you start to cherish more momentsand be more intentional, and you add
up all those micro moments and that'swhat leads to long term success with your
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children. Absolutely, and Justin,I would say, with all the time,
effort and research that you've put intothis, I would consider you an
expert on parenthood and fatherhood. Whatdo you think is the current state of
fatherhood in the United States. There'sbeen a lot written about it. It
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seems on one end, fatherhood isunder attack. On the other end,
there's all sorts of stressors that bleedoff that passion. What do you think
is really going on out there?Well, I appreciate the question, and
you know, I would say I'mfar from an expert, but I'm a
guy who's got a lot of hoursin being an intentional dad with my kids.
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So I've done at least by bysheer will and what I found in
my own research and talking to otherfathers in my partnership with the National Center
for Fathering, who does have alot of empirical data. And what I
would say is we can take myopinion or you can look at the facts.
And the facts are that over twentymillion children in America today suffer from
fatherlessness, meaning they have the lackof biological father in the home. But
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millions more, doctor Galotti, havea father who's physically present but emotionally absent,
right, And that's what I liketo call presenteeism, And that's a
whole other form of fatherlessness. Sowhen you combine those numbers, I mean
we are talking forty plus million childrenin America today are impacted by fatherlessness in
some form or fashion, and fatherhoodsin a sour state. You want to
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add on top of that the emasculationof the man in today's society and some
of the movements that are out theregoing against men, and you know,
it's not easy for a father today. And then you throw on top of
that just the more fuel to thefire and all the distraction, meaning technology
as an example, all the stressorsthat are placed on men today, and
being a dad is not easy.And that's why I wrote the book.
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That's why I have this platform,is because I feel like there is a
solution, and the solution is intentionality, and it's being present and emotionally available
for your children. Hold that thoughtright there. I'm doctor Joe Galotti.
We're talking with Justin Bat. Staytuned well, Bright Beck, welcome back.
Everybody on theline is Justin Bat,the author of Daddy Saturday. How
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to be an intentional dad, toraise good kids who become great adults,
not to be known about being absolutelyabsolutely, I think you put it very
well. Now. The one areawhere you and I overlap is that we
have a belief that an intact familywith intact mothers and fathers and there's good
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communication. And really what you're doingis you're setting up a solid foundation for
these children to grow into adolescents andadults. Is that their health and wellness
definitely pivots on the experience they havewith their family and their parents as young
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children. As you're talking about,what's the message tonight on that? Oh
man, you know, you talkabout another sour state. One in five
school age children today suffer from childhoodobesity, right, think about that,
one in five, And you know, I don't blame the children. And
I look at that, and that'sa parenting problem. That is a modeling
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problem. And how can we expectchildren who suffer from obesity to grow up
and become healthy adults. It's thehabits, it's the rituals that behaviors are
taught in the home. And sowe as parents, the mothers and fathers,
need to step up and we needto be an example for our children
and model the types of behavior withdiets and exercise and appropriate use of technology
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and screen time and all of thosethings now that are causing so much of
the epidemic that we now see withchildhood obesity and other ailments. And you
know, I feel like and whenI look at the data and I look
at what I see around me,it's really comes down to the matter of
choices, and it's a matter ofbeing comfortable or being uncomfortable. Because the
comfortable thing is when your kids arein the store and they're begging for twinkies.
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You buy in the twinkies because it'sthe easy thing to do, because
then they'll be quiet and they're happybecause they got the twinkies, and you
move on. The uncomfortable thing todo is to say no and say there's
a better choice, and let metell you why. And explain that to
your kids and teach them the principlesof healthy eating and healthy behavior, and
you know they get those healthy behaviors. I'll tell you my kids that the
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far more is cost and taught asa great principle. And my kids,
they watch me get up every morningand exercise is part of my routine,
and I do it before they evenwake up. But they see me come
back in the house sweaty from runningor from the gym, and they know
that's a part of my day.My kids is now they're eleven, ninety
seven and five and they get upin the mornings and they started to ask
me if I can help them exercisein the morning before they go to school.
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You should see the smile on myface when that happened. Oh yeah,
I have some food allergies, sothere are some restrictions eat gluten,
dairy or soy because of allergies.Yet my children watched that and they started
to make some choices. So nowthey say, hey, Dad, we
actually like the colorflower pizza better thanthe other pizza. Can we have colorflower
crust pizza? Or can we havecolorflower instead of rice? They like it.
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But it's all because of modeling andseeing it and trying it and knowing
that it's acceptable. You know,I would say the big theme that I
talk about any chance, and Italk about it in my book Eating Yourself
Sick, is that the negative impactof not eating as a family on the
children ranges from more risky behavior forthe children, greater chance of sort of
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emotional instability, less communication. Andso we all want kids to be safe
and successful and just a little betterthan what mom and dad were, but
we're neglecting the simplest things to getthem to that point. All, you
know, in a sense, youand I, of course we both have
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all the answers. All we needto do is have meals at home.
I know their challenges, but let'sjust start with one meal. Be it
Wednesday, be it Saturday, beit Friday, and you'll see that you
teach the kids and model as yousay, because they're going to mirror what
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we are doing to say, Look, it's okay to eat as a family,
and the fun that we could haveagain, you don't want to sit
at a table and be a bunchof mopes sitting at the table. You
engage them and play games and havea little bit of fun. But that
one activity, if you want tocall it, does so much for the
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children long term. Couldn't agree more. And I think your athlete spot on,
and I know your book talks alot about that. And I think
one thing that we also shared inDaddy Saturday, and something that's helped me
out is is to your point,creating that engaging time right when you're all
together as a family. You don'twant it to sit there like a bunch
of molpes. One thing real practicalfor your listeners that we've done works for
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any age is a game called tableTopics. It's a little round cube with
a bunch of cards. We playthe family edition. You pull out a
card, it's got a question onit. You ask the question to the
entire table, everyone goes around toshare their answers, and with three boys
and the ages that they are,at some point bodily functions get brought up
a conversation and you know, milk'scoming out of the nose and people are
laughing and we're having a great time. But family meals have become very enjoyable,
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and you know, broccoli goes downa lot easier when you're laughing and
sharing and having fun together as afamily. Man, I couldn't I couldn't
agree more. You know, theone thing that I see in my patients
and families that I see and alot of the younger people is uh,
people are not too interested in cooking. So we could say, yes,
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sit around the family table. Well, you know, dad went out and
you know, got takeout and weresitting around. You know, I would
say partial credit for that, butyou know the skill of you know,
the parents cooking and the kids participatingin you know, chopping the vegetables and
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stirring the sauce and setting the table. Do you do you see that that's
something that we can really attain orare you and I living in some Ozsie
and Harriet world? What do youthink you remember Ozzie and Harriet. I
hope you. I am a coupleof years older than you, but you
know, no, I do.I sure do. Well. Look,
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I would say from my own personalexperience, my father, my mom was
a fabulous cook. My grandmother wasan even more incredible cook. And my
mom had five squares for us everynight. And that was just the way
that I grew up. And soI learned that if I wanted to have
a consistent meal like my mother usedto make for me, I had to
learned to cook for myself. Andeven when I got married, I just
continued that trend. And so mywife and I split the duty, but
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oftentimes I'll come home and take overeven if she starts. I just enjoy
it. It's a release for me. But it's something I've always done,
and I've done it also intentionally becausemy kids see me cooking and it's not
just dad on the grill. Dadtakes part in helping make the meals.
And I think that's an important partfor every father. And you don't have
to be talented, it does.You don't have to make gourmet Michelin four
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star meals, all really simple stuff. It could be breakfast for dinner,
right, And so if you're makinggood choices and you get your kids involved
again, it's all about those behaviors, those rituals, creating traditions together as
a family, and it's that qualitytime together. Those can be some of
the most magical moments. Again,we do stuff like we will make pizzas
together, right, We'll get thecolor flower crust, We'll all make pizzas,
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we get healthy toppings. The kidshave a blast making those. It's
so simple, it doesn't even takethat long, and it's a great family
moment, a family memory. Don'thave to do every night. Realize that
that's not practical, but as yousaid, start with one night a week
and work from there, and beforeyou know it, you may have most
nights of the week with that's occurring. You know, I think the you
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know, the one the one thingis since it's going to be coming from
the dad transmitted down to the children, you know, I almost feel that,
you know, the calling that I'vegot and I'm going to drag you
along with me, is that wealmost need to set up a boot camp
for dads. Now. Of course, with social media and digital and you
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know, all sorts of learning toolsthat are out there, but almost a
boot camp where you know, mencome in and we teach them to cook
for their kids. Again, we'renot looking for some elaborate meal. We're
talking about you know, you know, grilling some vegetables, how to cook
a piece of fish, how tochop an onion, and then have them
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go forward and be successful with thekids. Yeah, I love the idea.
And you know, we have aDaddy Saturday Dad Box, which will
be a physical, tangible tool thatwill provide to dads, and that's one
of the things that we're looking toinclude in that. And you know,
getting experts advice like yours on howto make those meals or how do you
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switch this for that? Right,So, if you normally have something that's
unhealthy, how do you switch somethingthat's healthy in exchange, and how do
you make it appealing to your kids? And I saw this in this image.
I was called a avocado guac adial. Wow, they took avocado
shells. It made it look likea crocodile and it was the coolest thing
I've ever seen. It didn't looklike it took that much work. Basically,
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you make guacamole, you put itback in the shell right, and
you put some little carrots for teethand you make the eyes and it looks
like a crocodile. And I knowmy kids would go nuts over that.
And there's a healthy snack that youcan make with your kids. So again,
it's all about being intentional the mostimportant piece. And I couldn't agree
more with you. I think thatdads could really benefit from that. And
again it's the example that you set. And so if you're not cooking for
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your kids and you have boys inyour home, then how do you expect
them to do the same thing whenthey have their families down the line?
You're just going to perpetuate Oh hellthat already have today. Absolutely So justin
in a mere thirty seconds to finalto finalize tonight's interview, what would you
say to everybody listening tonight to bethat intentional dad, parent with purpose and
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be a role model. What doyou think you want to leave them with?
Well, I would say this blendyour professional in your personal life.
The biggest challenge I see with mostfathers is how do I do it?
And what do I do? Andso we've got lots of resources through Daddy
Saturday. You go to daddysatday dotcom. Get the book. You have
an elect of skill that you caneven download. But the whole point is
that you've got to blend those twoareas of your life together. Calendar everything,
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be intentional. Set the dates forfamily dinners, for date nights with
your daughters, for guys night outswith your son, Daddy Saturday events,
and if you do that and dothat consistently, you'll raise good kids that
become great adult Justin, I gotto say, you're onto something big,
and I think everybody listening tonight's goingto enjoy it. And we'll put information
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about Justin and his book Daddy Saturdayon the website, the podcast, and
you know, these these are thekind of individuals we are going to back.
Justin. Thanks very much for comingon. Thank you sir, such
a pleasure. Anytime. Final segmentcoming up. I'm got to Joe Galotti.
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Don't forget go to doctor Joegalotti dotcom. Final segment coming up.
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It is Father's Day, and Ido want to spend a little bit of
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time this Sunday on Father's Day talkingabout the role that fathers have in the
health of their family. Now,my own father who lived to a marvelous
age of ninety seven, and hewas blessed, and I would say all
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of us were blessed in that henever lost his mental faculties. He was
alert, oriented, was caring forhimself. He had only about a three
or four week decline illness before hepassed away two years ago. And so
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it was great that we were ableto experience Dad literally to the very end,
and that was a gift, andreally the same thing for my mother,
who had died a few years earlier. She was eighty eight years old,
and again there was no dementia,no Alzheimer's, no neurologic or cognitive
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disorders. She also had a relativelybrief illness that ended her life. So
I feel absolutely blessed that I hadmy parents, literally to the last breath
that they took. And for manyit's quite sad that their parents have this
long, prolonged decline that for manycould last for years on end, and
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it is a never a never endingdrama of pain and suffering watching watching a
loved one slowly, slowly pass away, and I really do feel sorry for
them, But at the same time, I feel very fortunate as to what
I had. But let me justtell you about my dad. This first
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segment to talk about my father,and this is the role model that I
desperately try to live by. Andthis is a role model that all of
you listening, all of the dads, the fathers, the grandfathers that are
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raising children, the role model thatwe need to follow. Now, my
father first and foremost put his family, my mom and the children on the
front burner. He sacrificed his careerto a sense in order to preserve the
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family, to preserve the stability ofthe children, to preserve the stability of
my mom, who's taken care ofthe children and saw to it that the
institutions that were near and dear toour family. It was school, it
was the church, It was theneighborhood. It was our neighbors and friends,
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the children's friends, the other relativesthat we had in the area in
New York. And he realized,and he outwardly would talk to us at
the kitchen table when he would getan opportunity, a promotion, and a
promotion meant moving up in the company, making more money, having a bigger
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house. He would sit with usas well as my mother at the kitchen
table and lay out the pros andcons to us moving from our house on
Long Island, maybe having to moveto Michigan, having to move to Buffalo,
having to move to New Jersey,having to move to Colorado. And
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even when we were nine, ten, eleven, twelve years old, the
conversation at the table, the kidshad input. The kids had input in
helping my father make a career changeand He never looked at all of these
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declines that he made. He neverlooked at it to say, hey,
because you did not want to moveto Montana, I am not making as
much money, I am not beingpromoted. Because he realized that the integrity
of the family was going to leadto health and happiness and the flourishing of
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the family, the flourishing of thechildren, that we were going to do
well. Now, there are certainlya million and one examples of families and
children that moved around because in themilitary, they moved all around because of
their father's job. But for thechemistry of my parents and the chemistry of
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the kids, it was their decisionto stay put and continue to focus.
Because he realized if he was totake these promotions, he was going to
have to travel. It was goingto be more time away, and more
time away you know, certainly meantdad was not going to be around.
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So he put an absolute premium onthe health and wellness of the kids,
health and wellness of my mom,the integrity of everybody on being around.
And that does not mean you donot better yourself because you just want to
stay at home and play catch withyour kids. That's really not what I'm
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saying, But I think there hasto be the emphasis that as a father
you are overseeing the integrity of thefamily. And moms do the same thing,
of course, but it is keythat the dads put the family first
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because you see so many times thatso many dads are sidetracked with their own
gig, their own thing. Theyare selfish, they are not thinking of
their family, not thinking of thelittle ones, not thinking of the teenagers
at need time, and it alltrickles down to the health and wellness of
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the children. So that was thatwas in a sense my dad. He
loved his family and he did everythingto make sure we were healthy. We
ate well, we exercised, wewere mentally intact. We had good psyche
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and it was a real blessing.All right, final final words on Father's
Day coming up after the break.I'm doctor Joe Glotti. Don't forget doctor
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com. All right, so happyFather's Day too, all of the dads
that are listening tonight, and wesay a prayer for the dads that we've
lost. And I do think thatthe role of the father in the health
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and wellness of your family is key. Now here we are, this is
a radio about health and wellness.We are not necessarily talking about the family,
though we talk about the family,which is very important, but the
health and wellness of our family,the health of our children, the health
of your spouse, and it isvery key. It is very key with
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regard to the role of the dad. And so first and foremost there is
the responsibility of being a role model. So children mirror what dad does.
So if dad is not exercising,Dad is gaining weight, Dad is smoking.
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Dad is sitting around the house drinkingafter he gets home from work,
or he drinks all day long,or on the weekend he gets he gets
smashed and is intoxicated and is talkingloud. That is not good. That
is not a good example. Becausewe know without a doubt young adults underage
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drinking, People that start consuming alcoholat an early age will have a very
perilous time. There's something about theyoung brain exposed to alcohol. And this
is science. This is not me. I am not part of the anti
alcohol lobby, but biochemically, physically, the brain exposed early to alcohol has
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a much higher risk of becoming addicted, having abusive alcohol tendencies. And so
if you have a dad, andagain I am not here to blame dad.
I'm here to say, let's spinin the round. You have the
opportunity to be a role model,so be careful, be watchful of how
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you are conducting yourself. Same thingwith exercise. You know, I know
plenty plenty of friends where the dadis exercising, he will take the kids
out with them, either going fora run, a walk riding their bikes.
They go to the gym, theygo to the pool, they go
kayaking, they play tennis, theyplay golf together, whatever the sport may
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be. If the dad is there, there is the opportunity to take the
children along so that they instill inthem at any age, whether they're young
children, they're middle school, highschool, college, young adult. You
have somebody that is leading you toa certain way of life that is conducive
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to good, good healthy and goodwellness. And then we get into the
food. All right, So youknow me, I am a foodie.
I am interested in food. Ibelieve that the pathway to good health is
through your mouth or through your gut. Okay. And so if you have
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a dad that is picky with food, not eating constantly eating out fast food,
really expecting anything from anybody in thehouse with regard to good nutrition,
eating properly, Let's cook meals athome. Let me show you how to
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cook. The kids are not goingto mirror the beneficial the beneficial strategies,
but rather fall into well. WhenI was growing up, my dad ate
fast food. He ate deep friedchicken every weekend. He drank and ate
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cake on the weekends, not thathe cooked, He showed us how to
cook. We have memories of cookingtogether, creating meals, eating as a
family. Okay, and these otherreally destructive behaviors that a lot of men
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have. I see it. Theseare my patients. So instead the role
has to be as a dad,take stock, take inventory of what you're
doing. And so it's not somuch about you. Are you exercising,
are you eating well? Are youlimiting the amount of alcohol? Are you
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not smoking? Yes, we're interestedthat our adult men are healthy, no
doubt about that. But what impactare you having on your children and your
family? Are you creating a healthfulenvironment? It really is something that we
don't spend enough time talking. Andthe father is under attack from many different,
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many different pathways, and I thinkit's important that we place emphasis on
how men take care of themselves andhow the children, how the children view
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this. We're asking a lot.There's there's no doubt about it. On
this Father's Day, no less.Okay, So anyway, we're gonna take
a break news, traffic, weather, Maybe we'll hear about the astros coming
up in a moment. Doctor JoeGalotti at the helm behind the microphone tonight
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as always. Doctor Joglotti dot comis our website. Stay tuned, I'll
be right back. Welcome back,everybody, Doctor Joe Galotti every Sunday,
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doctor Joegalotti dot com. Sign upfor a newsletter. All right, everybody,
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a total treat This week on theline, Justin bat, author of
the book Daddy Saturday, How tobe an intentional Dad to raise good kids
who become great adults. Man,if this is not right, up my
alley, Justin, welcome to theprogram today. Got a lot of good
to be here with you. Thankyou for having me. Well, you
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know a lot of people may think, okay, Daddy Saturday, what is
this all about? So really startfrom the beginning. What is Daddy Saturday?
And then how did you get involvedin this? Sure? So it
all started in my backyard with mychildren. I have four children now,
but about ten years ago, mywife and I were expecting our first child,
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our daughter, Hayden Olivia, andmy wife was a budding entrepreneur.
She was starting a couture bridal boutique. And as she started that business and
we named it after our daughter.Being the entreprene or that she was.
It required her to work every Saturdayin her store, being the busiest day
in retail. And so I foundmyself, as a young professional, home
with our two week old infant daughterat the time, by myself on Saturday
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all day. And we added threemore children to that, mixed three boys
in a row every two years,and it wasn't long before she was still
running the store and I was stillhome by myself on Saturdays. But now
I had moved my way up ina corporate career and found myself as an
overwhelmed, stressed out, just frustrated, tired dad who wanted more with his
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kids but didn't really know how todo it or what to do. And
so I just started to plan mydays with my kids and be intentional and
create a game plan for our Saturdaytogether. And it wasn't long before those
turned into some epic moments and memoriesand a lot of fun, and we
recorded them, put them on YouTube, started showing our videos, and people
started to ask a lot of questionsabout it. And I recognized quickly that
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the growth that I was seeing andmyself as a father and my children individually
and plucked as a family unit andour communication and the relationship was something that
I had something special. My kidsis actually named it Daddy Saturday by asking
for what we were going to domidweek. And it wasn't long before I
felt that I had a calling totake this beyond just my family and help
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other fathers who were probably struggling withthe same things that I was struggling with,
being tired, being intentional, managingthat tension between work at home,
and being the father that they knewthat they were called to be. Wow,
that is a great story. Wherewhere did you, uh, you
know, where did you pull theinspiration to really stick with this and not
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have the frustration, uh, sortof grow in and make this all turn
into a flop. You know,you stuck with it. Your your you
know it's been many years since youyou know, your kids are a bit
older now, but there's got tobe some internal fire that made you keep
going with this. Sure, SoI think, first and foremost it started
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with my own kids, and youknow, they they were great about holding
me accountable, and I set thebar pretty high, and we kept setting
the bar higher and creating more epicsSaturdays together, and so you know,
midweek they would start asking Dad,what are we doing for Daddy Saturday was
planned, you know, and Iwould try to keep it a surprise and
they would look forward to it,and we'd have friends coming over in the
neighborhood, kids and some of theirfathers. So you know, just the
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nature of the environment that we created, and I call it hype. So
on Saturday mornings a lot of times, you know, I'll get the music
planned and to get them out ofbed, we'll get we'll have pancakes slipping
and go run out and run throughlike a Daddy Saturday banner that we have,
and we make it quite an event. And they're eleven, nine,
seven and five at this point andwe still get hyped up for our Saturdays
together. And then beyond that,I think the next piece was when I
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felt that it was my calling andthat there was more here for me to
do, in more people to impact, and that why that I've now centered
on has really driven me to helpothers. And I think when you're giving
both to my children and now toothers, saying that's the driver and it
helps move forward or now I'll puta big caveat there, because by all
means, don't make this out tobe something where all those days have been
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perfect, right, right, there'sstill the days where I've been tired or
sick, or my grand plans thatI've made for our kids day together has
failed. Like I'm not handy.I'm the least handy guy in the world
probably, and so me trying toconstruct something like an obstacle horse. It
has filled more time than I cancount. But we still have a lot
of fun together, and some ofthose filled moments are actually some of our
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most special times we've had together.Yeah, you know, just just listening
to this and for all the parentsand the dads listening here and knowing this
myself as coming from a family wheremy mom and dad were very involved and
we had plans, and myself,you know, with my own family,
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I think the one word that sortof is a thread connecting here is passion.
You have to have passion with regardto one wanting to be that parent,
wanting to motivate, wanting to bea good role model for your kids.
A lot of this does not happenby chance, would you agree?
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Oh? Completely? And I thinkif you leave it to chance, as
we say in our household, thedays can be so long, but the
years are so short. We've gotjars full of pebbles that sit on our
mantle, and each of those pebblesrepresents a week that our child has in
the home. A child on averagehas about nine hundred, nine hundred and
thirty weeks in the home before theyleave for college or work or wherever they
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go after they turn eighteen. Andso that time is so short, and
if you leave it to chance,those days are going to go by and
you're going to miss the opportunities.And I think that's the one thing that
being intentional does, or having passionand in the space does, is it
helps you start to cherish more momentsand be more intentional, and you add
up all those micro moments and that'swhat leads to long term success with your
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children. Absolutely, and Justin,I would say, with all the time,
effort and research that you've put intothis, I would consider you an
expert on parenthood and fatherhood. Whatdo you think is the current state of
fatherhood in the United States. There'sbeen a lot written about it. It
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seems on one end, fatherhood isunder attack. On the other end,
there's all sorts of stressors that bleedoff that passion. What do you think
is really going on out there?Well, I appreciate the question, and
you know, I would say I'mfar from an expert, but I'm a
guy who's got a lot of hoursin being an intentional dad with my kids.
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So I've done at least by bysheer will and what I found in
my own research and talking to otherfathers in my partnership with the National Center
for Fathering, who does have alot of empirical data. And what I
would say is we can take myopinion or you can look at the facts.
And the facts are that over twentymillion children in America today suffer from
fatherlessness, meaning they have the lackof biological father in the home. But
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millions more, doctor Galotti, havea father who's physically present but emotionally absent,
right, And that's what I liketo call presenteeism, And that's a
whole other form of fatherlessness. Sowhen you combine those numbers, I mean
we are talking forty plus million childrenin America today are impacted by fatherlessness in
some form or fashion, and fatherhoodsin a sour state. You want to
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add on top of that the emasculationof the man in today's society and some
of the movements that are out theregoing against men, and you know,
it's not easy for a father today. And then you throw on top of
that just the more fuel to thefire and all the distraction, meaning technology
as an example, all the stressorsthat are placed on men today, and
being a dad is not easy.And that's why I wrote the book.
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That's why I have this platform,is because I feel like there is a
solution, and the solution is intentionality, and it's being present and emotionally available
for your children. Hold that thoughtright there. I'm doctor Joe Galotti.
We're talking with Justin Bat. Staytuned well, Bright Beck, welcome back.
Everybody on theline is Justin Bat,the author of Daddy Saturday. How
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to be an intentional dad, toraise good kids who become great adults,
not to be known about being absolutelyabsolutely, I think you put it very
well. Now. The one areawhere you and I overlap is that we
have a belief that an intact familywith intact mothers and fathers and there's good
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communication. And really what you're doingis you're setting up a solid foundation for
these children to grow into adolescents andadults. Is that their health and wellness
definitely pivots on the experience they havewith their family and their parents as young
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children. As you're talking about,what's the message tonight on that? Oh
man, you know, you talkabout another sour state. One in five
school age children today suffer from childhoodobesity, right, think about that,
one in five, And you know, I don't blame the children. And
I look at that, and that'sa parenting problem. That is a modeling
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problem. And how can we expectchildren who suffer from obesity to grow up
and become healthy adults. It's thehabits, it's the rituals that behaviors are
taught in the home. And sowe as parents, the mothers and fathers,
need to step up and we needto be an example for our children
and model the types of behavior withdiets and exercise and appropriate use of technology
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and screen time and all of thosethings now that are causing so much of
the epidemic that we now see withchildhood obesity and other ailments. And you
know, I feel like and whenI look at the data and I look
at what I see around me,it's really comes down to the matter of
choices, and it's a matter ofbeing comfortable or being uncomfortable. Because the
comfortable thing is when your kids arein the store and they're begging for twinkies.
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You buy in the twinkies because it'sthe easy thing to do, because
then they'll be quiet and they're happybecause they got the twinkies, and you
move on. The uncomfortable thing todo is to say no and say there's
a better choice, and let metell you why. And explain that to
your kids and teach them the principlesof healthy eating and healthy behavior, and
you know they get those healthy behaviors. I'll tell you my kids that the
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far more is cost and taught asa great principle. And my kids,
they watch me get up every morningand exercise is part of my routine,
and I do it before they evenwake up. But they see me come
back in the house sweaty from runningor from the gym, and they know
that's a part of my day.My kids is now they're eleven, ninety
seven and five and they get upin the mornings and they started to ask
me if I can help them exercisein the morning before they go to school.
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You should see the smile on myface when that happened. Oh yeah,
I have some food allergies, sothere are some restrictions eat gluten,
dairy or soy because of allergies.Yet my children watched that and they started
to make some choices. So nowthey say, hey, Dad, we
actually like the colorflower pizza better thanthe other pizza. Can we have colorflower
crust pizza? Or can we havecolorflower instead of rice? They like it.
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But it's all because of modeling andseeing it and trying it and knowing
that it's acceptable. You know,I would say the big theme that I
talk about any chance, and Italk about it in my book Eating Yourself
Sick, is that the negative impactof not eating as a family on the
children ranges from more risky behavior forthe children, greater chance of sort of
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emotional instability, less communication. Andso we all want kids to be safe
and successful and just a little betterthan what mom and dad were, but
we're neglecting the simplest things to getthem to that point. All, you
know, in a sense, youand I, of course we both have
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all the answers. All we needto do is have meals at home.
I know their challenges, but let'sjust start with one meal. Be it
Wednesday, be it Saturday, beit Friday, and you'll see that you
teach the kids and model as yousay, because they're going to mirror what
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we are doing to say, Look, it's okay to eat as a family,
and the fun that we could haveagain, you don't want to sit
at a table and be a bunchof mopes sitting at the table. You
engage them and play games and havea little bit of fun. But that
one activity, if you want tocall it, does so much for the
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children long term. Couldn't agree more. And I think your athlete spot on,
and I know your book talks alot about that. And I think
one thing that we also shared inDaddy Saturday, and something that's helped me
out is is to your point,creating that engaging time right when you're all
together as a family. You don'twant it to sit there like a bunch
of molpes. One thing real practicalfor your listeners that we've done works for
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any age is a game called tableTopics. It's a little round cube with
a bunch of cards. We playthe family edition. You pull out a
card, it's got a question onit. You ask the question to the
entire table, everyone goes around toshare their answers, and with three boys
and the ages that they are,at some point bodily functions get brought up
a conversation and you know, milk'scoming out of the nose and people are
laughing and we're having a great time. But family meals have become very enjoyable,
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and you know, broccoli goes downa lot easier when you're laughing and
sharing and having fun together as afamily. Man, I couldn't I couldn't
agree more. You know, theone thing that I see in my patients
and families that I see and alot of the younger people is uh,
people are not too interested in cooking. So we could say, yes,
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sit around the family table. Well, you know, dad went out and
you know, got takeout and weresitting around. You know, I would
say partial credit for that, butyou know the skill of you know,
the parents cooking and the kids participatingin you know, chopping the vegetables and
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stirring the sauce and setting the table. Do you do you see that that's
something that we can really attain orare you and I living in some Ozsie
and Harriet world? What do youthink you remember Ozzie and Harriet. I
hope you. I am a coupleof years older than you, but you
know, no, I do.I sure do. Well. Look,
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I would say from my own personalexperience, my father, my mom was
a fabulous cook. My grandmother wasan even more incredible cook. And my
mom had five squares for us everynight. And that was just the way
that I grew up. And soI learned that if I wanted to have
a consistent meal like my mother usedto make for me, I had to
learned to cook for myself. Andeven when I got married, I just
continued that trend. And so mywife and I split the duty, but
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oftentimes I'll come home and take overeven if she starts. I just enjoy
it. It's a release for me. But it's something I've always done,
and I've done it also intentionally becausemy kids see me cooking and it's not
just dad on the grill. Dadtakes part in helping make the meals.
And I think that's an important partfor every father. And you don't have
to be talented, it does.You don't have to make gourmet Michelin four
(33:27):
star meals, all really simple stuff. It could be breakfast for dinner,
right, And so if you're makinggood choices and you get your kids involved
again, it's all about those behaviors, those rituals, creating traditions together as
a family, and it's that qualitytime together. Those can be some of
the most magical moments. Again,we do stuff like we will make pizzas
together, right, We'll get thecolor flower crust, We'll all make pizzas,
(33:51):
we get healthy toppings. The kidshave a blast making those. It's
so simple, it doesn't even takethat long, and it's a great family
moment, a family memory. Don'thave to do every night. Realize that
that's not practical, but as yousaid, start with one night a week
and work from there, and beforeyou know it, you may have most
nights of the week with that's occurring. You know, I think the you
(34:12):
know, the one the one thingis since it's going to be coming from
the dad transmitted down to the children, you know, I almost feel that,
you know, the calling that I'vegot and I'm going to drag you
along with me, is that wealmost need to set up a boot camp
for dads. Now. Of course, with social media and digital and you
(34:35):
know, all sorts of learning toolsthat are out there, but almost a
boot camp where you know, mencome in and we teach them to cook
for their kids. Again, we'renot looking for some elaborate meal. We're
talking about you know, you know, grilling some vegetables, how to cook
a piece of fish, how tochop an onion, and then have them
(34:57):
go forward and be successful with thekids. Yeah, I love the idea.
And you know, we have aDaddy Saturday Dad Box, which will
be a physical, tangible tool thatwill provide to dads, and that's one
of the things that we're looking toinclude in that. And you know,
getting experts advice like yours on howto make those meals or how do you
(35:19):
switch this for that? Right,So, if you normally have something that's
unhealthy, how do you switch somethingthat's healthy in exchange, and how do
you make it appealing to your kids? And I saw this in this image.
I was called a avocado guac adial. Wow, they took avocado
shells. It made it look likea crocodile and it was the coolest thing
I've ever seen. It didn't looklike it took that much work. Basically,
(35:40):
you make guacamole, you put itback in the shell right, and
you put some little carrots for teethand you make the eyes and it looks
like a crocodile. And I knowmy kids would go nuts over that.
And there's a healthy snack that youcan make with your kids. So again,
it's all about being intentional the mostimportant piece. And I couldn't agree
more with you. I think thatdads could really benefit from that. And
again it's the example that you set. And so if you're not cooking for
(36:02):
your kids and you have boys inyour home, then how do you expect
them to do the same thing whenthey have their families down the line?
You're just going to perpetuate Oh hellthat already have today. Absolutely So justin
in a mere thirty seconds to finalto finalize tonight's interview, what would you
say to everybody listening tonight to bethat intentional dad, parent with purpose and
(36:28):
be a role model. What doyou think you want to leave them with?
Well, I would say this blendyour professional in your personal life.
The biggest challenge I see with mostfathers is how do I do it?
And what do I do? Andso we've got lots of resources through Daddy
Saturday. You go to daddysatday dotcom. Get the book. You have
an elect of skill that you caneven download. But the whole point is
that you've got to blend those twoareas of your life together. Calendar everything,
(36:52):
be intentional. Set the dates forfamily dinners, for date nights with
your daughters, for guys night outswith your son, Daddy Saturday events,
and if you do that and dothat consistently, you'll raise good kids that
become great adult Justin, I gotto say, you're onto something big,
and I think everybody listening tonight's goingto enjoy it. And we'll put information
(37:12):
about Justin and his book Daddy Saturdayon the website, the podcast, and
you know, these these are thekind of individuals we are going to back.
Justin. Thanks very much for comingon. Thank you sir, such
a pleasure. Anytime. Final segmentcoming up. I'm got to Joe Galotti.
(37:36):
Don't forget go to doctor Joegalotti dotcom. Final segment coming up.
We'll be right back
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