Today is Father's Day. Rather than congratulate the men who have steped up to the plate and have become fathers, some people seem only capable of telling men what they should be doing or are lucky enough to be doing.
Men who marry the women they love and remain engaged before during and after the birthing process deserve better. If they stick around and do their best to be good dads, they deserve a day when they can be recognized for doing so.
Today I've engaged on one thread where fathers were scolded for not paying better child support. Now this thread tells fathers how damn lucky they are that they have a woman in their lives.
In case most people don't get it, Fathers are to be congratulated for what they have done, not assuming the worst or conveying the belief that they lead lucky lives due to a woman being in it.
There's not a father out here who is going to deny that children have made their lives richer. There's not a father out here who won't admit that having a wife has made their life richer. This isn't a day to congratulate those children or the mothers is it.
Dads, thanks for being a stand up person. There's at least one person out here who thinks you're great, and that society is better off because you're a member of it.
He spent last night at his grandmothers and this morning when I picked him up he handed me a card. Now you should know that my boy is 11.
He looked at me and said: "It's a Birthday Card I changed into a Fathers Day card. I just thought that Fathers Day should be as big a deal as your birthday."
I don't choke up real often, but I did right then.
I know I'll never deny that my life is richer because I'm married to the love of my life and have been blessed with a fine son. I don't know how or why I have been so richly rewarded because I honestly don't think I've done all that much to deserve it. I just try to remain grateful every day I get out of bed.
Today is my 'Friday' and I'm really looking forward to spending my 2 days off with my wife and son just bumming around, maybe going to the pool, and just generally hanging out with the two people I love the most in this world.
Nobody needs to thank me for being a husband and a dad. There isn't anything else in this world I'd rather be known as.
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Dads, thanks for being a stand up person. There's at least one person out here who thinks you're great, and that society is better off because you're a member of it.
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And here's another person who thinks dads are great! Thanks to all the real fathers out there. Thanks for all that you do to hold your families and civilization together.
First thing I have to hit the snooze button and kick my wife out of bed - in case she doesn't wake up when she hits the floor.
Then I have to keep an ear out making sure she's getting the kids up, making them lunches, and getting them out the door to school.
Then I eventually drag my butt out of bed, grab the thermos of strangely always fresh hot coffee and a cup, fire up the laptop on the porch, light a smoke, check the DOW, and put my feet up.
Sometimes I let her get a nap in before I demand her favors.
Now on Father's day things are really great ... ;-)
Today was spent by the MSM ridiculing father hood or trying to say how men are now engaging in feminine behavior. Men who act like weak sissies are portrayed as good and men who act like men are not good in their eyes.
The MSM have been doing everything but celebrating fatherhood.
Articles like this are no different than those that blame men for everything that is wrong in a relationship.
Well said.
Here's an article that celebrates a dad's struggle to stay alive and matter to his kids.