I sat down with Emmanuel Chirilean, Executive Director of Tank EdDucates this week. We explore the narrative that there are few good fathers in the African American Culture. He proudly announces this was not his experience and neither does it have to be that of others if we are willing to step up, set the bar high, and be fathers who lead.
Show highlights:
- Narrative that there are not good men and fathers in the black culture
- 38% of African American families come from 2 parent family households versus 72% in White American families
- The blessing of being raised by a father with strict God centered focus
- Who is teaching us how to become good men
- A father is a person should be a person who is responsible and who is a leader in his family
- Men like Emmanuel, Shon Hart, Eric Thomas intentionally trying to set the bar
- Why he created Tank EdDucates
- Changing education to model the way kids learn
- Extending into prison reform and other areas
- What adopted from his dad and what characteristics he has adapted as he is raising his kids (Old Testament vs. New Testament)
- Kids rise to the expectations set for them
- Pushing our dreams on our kids instead of parenting according to their gifts
Guest:
Emmanuel Cherilien
Executive Director of Tank EdDucates
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tankedducates/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/echerilien
Website: https://www.tankedducates.com/
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