<p>For all the involved fathers on CC, have a great day. I know mothers are often credited for our kids’ achievements, but I see some great dads on CC.</p>
<p>My husband does all the cooking in the house, on top of of his job. He takes great pride and care of food he gives to our girls. Whenever I tell the girls they couldn’t go to some social events because I am too tired to stay up to drive them, my husband would always volunteer to pick them up. He has a record of doing 5 pickup/drop off in one day for D1 because he didn’t want D1 to get a ride with her friends. Earlier on, when we were tight on money and girls wanted some nice to haves, he would say, “I could wait on getting ___(could be his eye glasses), get that for them.” </p>
<p>There are many more examples I could give about my H as a father…I am sure our girls will let him today.</p>
<p>Your husband sounds like a wonderful father, oldfort. Mine doesn’t do much cooking, but he has done much more than his fair share of driving D and S all over, and has always been a terrific, involved, hands-on dad. Happy Father’s Day to all!</p>
<p>This is my annual opportunity and duty to commend you CC Dads who are involved in your children’s educations. It isn’t just “good” and “nice” that you do so. It’s essential. Beyond the role modeling – which is absolutely critical for boys – it is important for your sons and daughters that you contribute intellectually. Cognition itself is complex and is dependent on a variety of signals to thrive. Men often explain things differently than women: all the better. I experienced this as a student; I continue to see it as an educator myself.</p>
<p>Keep up the work, Dads: you have my undying gratitude.:)</p>
<p>Some of my daughters best teachers have been men- especially since my dad died when I was 17 and my husbands parents are not very interested in them, it has been important for them to see that men can be good mentors- even if their dad is more the good cop to my bad cop.
Thanks dads.</p>
<p>Happy Father’s Day to all the great Dads out there! (My son still marks the occasion with me; the fact that I’m a woman, and have openly been one since he was 14, has no bearing on the fact that I am, biologically, his father. Nor has it prevented me from continuing to be a good “role model” for him, as a parent and as a human being. At least, so he says. To celebrate the day, I’m taking him to see “Drag Me to Hell,” the new Sam Raimi movie, as kind of a tribute to all the horror movies we used to watch together back when he was 10 or 11 and really into them.)</p>
What a thoughtful post!</p>