ABCs of fathering

stories and articles written by the late Pastor Tom Goetz, with the support of his wife Jeanne Goetz of Odessa. Jeanne Goetz is working to get the items published in book form, but for right now, interested readers can read his work in the series of articles that continue in this issue of The Record.

Successful fathers know their ABCs. This isn’t meant to imply that being a father is simple because that isn’t true. It does mean however that a successful father deals with the basics of life again and again. The following list can serve as a primer for a father’s ABCs.

Approval

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