There’s positively one thing totally different about millennial dads, and it’s not only a hunch that they’re extra current and concerned with their youngsters — it’s precise scientific reality.

Millennial fathers ages 23 to 38 are extra concerned than ever earlier than. Practically 4 instances as many fathers as within the Nineteen Nineties now take paternity go away after the beginning of a kid, in line with a 2017 Ohio State College examine. And it’s not simply their bodily presence that’s changing into extra prevalent.

Extra dads are tossing away the “robust it out; don’t cry” tradition of the previous for a extra light — and more practical — method. One dad particularly is being praised all around the web for his candy, light disposition along with his daughter after she struggles to seek out braveness after a nasty fall whereas skateboarding.

Not solely does he assist her recuperate and respect her emotions and autonomy — he additionally will get her to nail her skateboarding aim.

In a now-viral video, Robert is proven instructing his daughter Aubrin easy methods to skateboard on a mini-half pipe when she takes a nasty fall. Robert instantly runs in to seize her, hugs her and asks, “Did it scare you, or did it harm you?” He stays calm throughout the woman’s crying and evaluates her physique although he claimed he was shaking inside.

“Seeing her slam sucks the air out of my lungs and my coronary heart drops however I simply attempt to keep calm and redirect with some questions or feedback whereas surveying the state of affairs,” he wrote on Instagram.

After ensuring she’s okay, he works to construct her confidence again up. “The drop-in was wonderful,” he says.

Aubrin nonetheless appears not sure regardless of her dad’s praise. “What if I fall once more?” she asks. “I’m form of scared … and I actually need to do it.”

That is when Robert steps in with some core-memory recommendation that Aubrin will keep in mind for years to return. “Typically it’s scary doing exhausting issues,” he tells her. “And it’s completely as much as you whether or not you need to give it [another] go proper now.”

When she reiterates to her dad that she continues to be fairly scared to strive once more, Robert reminds her that there is no such thing as a strain to maintain going if she is tapped out. “You don’t have to do that,” he reminds her.

“I need to,” she replies.

Aubrin retains making an attempt the drop in along with her dad proper there, prepared to leap in and catch her if she falls. Robert famous in his Instagram put up that it was essential for him to “re-gain her belief” and “re-establish her confidence after [the] slam.”

He added that youngsters are so usually influenced by a father or mother’s response to a state of affairs, and he has a “aim to take away my affect and permit her to simply be, to really feel, to harm at her tempo …”

After a number of tries, Aubrin begins to skate the ramp on her personal with confidence as her dad watches on, beaming at his daughter’s bravery.

“It’s traditional comeback story of falling and getting again as much as strive once more, which is one thing that everybody has encountered in their very own lives,” Robert advised TODAY Mother and father. Robert mentioned he’s been “inundated” with messages from viewers of the video, telling him they need they’d had a dad like him rising up.

“The message is evident: Now we have to do higher,” he continued. “Our actions throughout this significant and brief stretch of time have lasting results on our kids that ripple by way of future households and generations.” Preach, Robert!

This isn’t the primary time the pair has gone viral. You would possibly keep in mind Aubrin from a collection of snowboarding movies by which she’s dressed as a dinosaur and mic’ed up — so that everybody can hear her optimistic self-talk as she navigates the slopes and learns the game.

“I gained’t fall! Perhaps I’ll! That’s okay! As a result of all of us fall!” she sings as she practices.

Undecided who’s extra inspiring: Aubrin or her dad.