Father’s Day Is Every Day

We’ve all heard it before. Any man can father a child, but not every man can be a father. Fatherhood begins with accepting responsibility for the life you help bring in the world. With your efforts, your children will grow up to become what they were born to become.

To be a good Dad means to know and accept that life will take on a whole new meaning. It is no longer about you. It is about showing respect and hopefully love to the child’s mother.

Accepting that the road to being a good dad means building a path that only you can build, moving the rocks that lie ahead, smoothing the bumps that are sure to follow. It also means teaching kids personal responsibility and letting them learn from their mistakes.

No one is expected to be perfect, and sometimes we do fail. But lessons can be learned. We are all imperfect beings trying to live in a perfect world. We are all perfect at being imperfect.

Yet each day for the rest of our lives, we will owe it to our children to always be there. Maybe our own childhoods weren’t always that happy, perhaps we still “live” in our childhood. But consider this: If we don’t turn it around to a new reality and show our kids how it is supposed to be, how will they know how it should be when they become parents?

It’s not too late to be a good Dad. In spite of our faults, when you’re a good Dad, you’ll be amazed at how forgiving your kids can be and how prepared they are to face the world long after we are gone.

Then again, if you’re a good Dad, maybe it’s not that amazing after all. After all, isn’t that what you’ve been teaching them all along?