An excellent article was passed on to me today from hlei. John Wilkins is the author and a dad concerned about doing the right things for his children. I thought it was well written and worth sharing. It seeks out the deeper meaning of what it means to be a dad and how there are differences between generations, societal mores, and religious expectations.
The weight of being a parent today is excessive, and for fathers immensely confusing. Perhaps my dad did love me, and perhaps he even liked me – I’ll never know. It wasn’t expressed under the conventions of the …read more