The Power of an Engaged Father

The most important investment fathers can make is not in personal fulfillment, but in the lives of their children.

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In his induction speech as he entered the Baseball Hall of Fame, Minnesota Twins star Harmon Killebrew shared the following story: “We used to play a lot of ball out in the front yard, and my mother would say, ‘You’re tearing up the grass and digging holes in the front yard?’ And my father would say, ‘We’re not raising grass here, we’re raising boys.’”