One evening several months ago, my 9-year-old son Chance and I were heading up to his bedroom to do the tucking-in ritual, when we took a short detour to my study.
It was just a few weeks after I had joined the National Center for Fathering, and my new business cards were on my desk. Chance saw them and asked if he could have one. I said, "Sure, Son," and he picked one up.
He read it out loud: Carey Casey, Chief Executive Officer. Then he read the address and all the numbers, and I could tell he felt greatly affirmed and even proud of his old dad.
A little later, in Chance's bedroom, I reached over to turn off the light on his dresser and saw my business card there. On the card, right below my title, in his 9-year-old chicken scratches, Chance had written the words, "A great father."
As a dad, it was one of those moments I wouldn't trade for anything. And that has provided motivation for me to help as many dads as possible have a moment like that because they have been there for their children.
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SOURCE: Fathers.com
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