Happy Father’s Day!
To all of the Fathers who love their children in words, thoughts, and deeds, Happy Father’s Day!
When I was:
Four years old: My daddy can do anything!
Five years old: My daddy knows a whole lot.
Six years old: My dad is smarter than your dad.
Eight years old: My dad doesn’t know exactly everything.
Ten years old: In the olden days when my dad grew up, things were sure different!
Twelve years old: Oh, well, naturally, dad doesn’t know anything about that. He is too old to remember his childhood.
Fourteen years old: Don’t pay any attention to my dad. He is to old fashioned
Twenty-one years old:Him! O my, he’s hopelessly out of date!
Twenty-five years old: Dad knows about it, but then he should because he has been around so long.
Thirty years old: Maybe we should ask Dad what he thinks. After all, he’s had a lot of experience.
Thirty-five years old:I’m not doing a single thing until I talk to Dad
Forty years old: I wonder how Dad would have handled it. He was so wise.
Fifty years old: I’d give anything if Dad were here now so I could talk this over with him.
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For the fathers who have daughters, I can’t stress enough the importance of being close to your daughter and helping her during her early years. If you don’t have a relationship with your children, call them, send a letter, or a postcard. Even if you think they don’t care or don’t want to hear from you. It matters more than you know.
“We need to realize that we are our children’s first and best teachers. When we are selfish or inconsiderate, when we mistreat our wives or girlfriends, when we cut corners or fail to control our tempers, our children learn from that — and it’s no surprise when we see those behaviors in our schools or on our streets.
But it also works the other way around. When we work hard, treat others with respect, spend within our means, and contribute to our communities, those are the lessons our children learn. And that is what so many fathers are doing every day — coaching soccer and Little League, going to those school assemblies and parent-teacher conferences, scrimping and saving and working that extra shift so their kids can go to college. They are fulfilling their most fundamental duty as fathers: to show their children, by example, the kind of people they want them to become”.
President Barack Obama
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31437363/ns/fathers_day_guide/page/2/
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