Well, I am glad she asked me to speak, because why should she get all the credit?
I’m a cool dad. I know I am. Shouldn’t I have told Nicole to quit with the water fight in the kitchen, and shouldn’t we have been setting a better example for our children? Probably we should have. But the point is, we didn’t and we had fun and the kids loved it.
I hear how cool I am from time to time. It always makes me feel good when one of my daughter’s says somethign like that. Its usually the middle child, Melissa. I know Nic talks about her a lot. She has an amazing ability to make people feel very good about what they are doing, and when she says I’m cool I think I must be doing something right.
We as a family try to go out of our way to have fun as much as possible. Even when the money is tight and I’m busy worrying about how I’m going to pay off a bill, I still try to take them out and do things with them. In fact, did you know that if you just take your kid to a park and spend time talking to them and playing with them and just being there that those are the times they remember most?
One of our kids talks about the time we spontaneously went to the park at 8:30pm at night. It was almost dark and we knew that it would be pretty dark when we got there. I took them anyway and we had a a lot of fun. It was something different, something we don’t normally do and they loved it.
Being a dad is the coolest thing ever!
