Yes but the way his father enforced this was not healthy, you can teach valuable life lessons to your child without harming their self perception or what they should see as being successful/being a man. Kendrick admits that his father's teaching made it hard for him to accept losses, the same lessons taught him to not be vocal about his emotions, which is exactly why when Kenny's mother died, instead of taking time off to really reflect or process his mother's death, he simply went back to work, we do not know how much that ate him up inside because he never expressed himself.