Happy Father’s Day 2011
Posted By Kathleen David on June 19, 2011
Fathers are special people. When you are a kid, one of the questions that is asked by your peers when you are all getting to know each other is “What does your Father do?” My answer, when I was a kid, was my father is a physicist who specialized in lasers and holography. Which is a mouthful for a six year old.
Fathers can shape the people we are. I know my father is proud of me and that he loves me. I know my husband is very proud of and loves his children with all his heart.
Fathers teach us things. I got my first tool lessons from my dad. He taught me how to whistle but never could teach me the power whistle (it could be heard through out the neighborhood and was our signal to get home.) He taught me chess and bought me my travel board I still have today. He read to me all kinds of books. He shared his interests with me and took an interest in what I was interested in. I watch my husband teach my daughter the correct way to hold a bat or throw a ball. He reads to her and encourages her to read. We have cartoon night on Fridays were, if there is nothing new on, he shares with her TV cartoons that he loved when he was her age. He helps her with her grammar and pronunciation of words she doesn’t know along with their definitions.
I know Caroline is lucky to have her father so much in her life. Because we work out of the house, he can be there when she gets up in the morning and when she goes to bed at night. She didn’t really understand until she went to school how different that was. She does appreciate it.
My father made sure that we were well educated in the arts. We would go to art museums and he would talk to us about the paintings. He showed us Ballet and theater. He watched the Muppet Show with us. The Muppet Show was serious family time in our house with a lot of laughter. My parents took me to the opening of the Center for Puppetry Arts because they knew how important it was and cool it would be to see Jim Henson in person. I got an up close and person view because the crowd pushed Jim into me rather hard and Kermit asked me if I was OK. I answered the puppet.
I love my father very much. And I appreciate now all that he did in his life to make sure mine was a good childhood and a good beginning for the adult I would become.
Thanks Dad.
I am grateful to the fathers in my life who show me by example of why they deserve the title of Best Father Ever.
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