Researchers refer to this as the “Power of Dad.” Fathers who are able to establish a good connection with their son early - perhaps through rough-and-tumble play during childhood - greatly improved the young man’s problem-solving skills. “Writing letters, phone calls - even if you’re not in physical proximity, knowing your dad cares and wants to be involved to the extent that they can is really important,” Marcy Carlson, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin says about dads who are not living at home.Ī strong bond is crucial for a son to grow up into a man who can deal effectively with life’s daily struggles. If it would help: read an example eulogy (funeral speech) from a son to his much loved father.

Use them to trigger your own thoughts and memories the things you want to write and incorporate one or two of them in that if you wish. Open up a swipe file and put any that speak to you into it. That’s where collections of father and son quotations like these really help.And it’s doubly hard when it’s necessary because that special man has died. Pulling the words together to say what you want when you want to honor your father can be tricky, particularly if you’re not used expressing yourself that way.It takes a whole lot more to actively, positively be a Dad: a man who commits his time, energy and love to raising a boy to become a good man.

Here’s to glorious Dads! Those ordinary men who are heroes in the eyes of their sons!

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