1. Were you mentored by a father or other adult? What has been the lasting impact on your life?

2. What is mentoring? Why is mentoring our children such an important task?

3. Ephesians 6:4 instructs fathers not to make their children anger "but" to train and instruct them in ways approved by God. What is the inference if we don't train and instruct them? What is the inference if we do?

4. In this lesson we used the metaphor of a toddler venturing out, while always feeling it can run back and cling to the security of daddy's leg. In what ways does this picture capture the lifelong task of a child and you, it's father?

5. What is the chief task of a child? What is the chief task of a father?
What can you do to give each of your children a) the confidence to venture out and b) the security that you will always be there?