Fatherhood
Fatherhood is fun!
Full-blown
Fatherhood
Being a father is the best thing that can ever happen to a man! I am writing for the A to Z +1 August blog challenge and I thought since today’s letter is “F” I would talk about something very important to me, fatherhood! Today, we shall find out together about the letter “F” and fatherhood.
The letter “F” of Fathers
Fabulous – Where else can a man become truly fabulous in the eyes of another? Being a father allows us to make our children happy. Men are able to not only run, play and laugh again but they can fall on their face (literally) and have their child copy the actions!
Fadeless – Think of all things that fade over time clothing, pictures, book etc. Fathers are fadeless. Our children might forget us upon occasion. A child will never forget when they need extra money though. According to Snopes,our children also never forget the biggest day of the year for collect calls is father’s day!
Farseeing – Once a man becomes a father they become all-knowing. All father’s will receive a copy of the Father’s Curse handbook (see Father’s Curse or Father’s Curse Revisited.) The book will become a valuable asset in knowing the truth’s of fatherhood and what is about to happen to a man. The latest addition even discusses that father’s are now allowed to have eyes in back of their head! Eye’s in back of the head until recently was an exclusive patent for mother’s. It is now available and widely used by men. Once a father becomes farseeing they will understand the true excitement of knowing things going on behind their back by their children!
Fearless – As a father your children will “think” you have no fears! It doesn’t matter if you are now afraid of the dark, spiders or snakes. Children will call you when they become truly afraid of something. Children are often so scared of certain things they don’t even notice that you are shaking too!
Fluent – Children are going to test you in every subject imaginable! They will ask you questions about life, the universe and everything. Being fluent means we really don’t know the answers and even if we did our children generally don’t believe us anyway because they know everything. I have discovered that google is my friend and if my son asks a question that I don’t know the answer to I just tell him the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42 as defined by Douglas Addams.
Foolish – Fatherhood can make a serious man foolish in minutes. I don’t know of many other things in life that make a man do so many strange things. A man finds out about being a father and one of their first purchases “might be” the entire history of the NFL to read and teach their young child.
Forgiving – There is so much truth in being a dad and finding that we can forgive so easily now. Men will discover that one of the true beauties of fatherhood is being able to forgive your child as readily as they will forgive you. Father’s can forgive when their child decided to help them and add signatures to your autographed baseball cards.
Fossil – It doesn’t matter if a man has their first child as young as 16 or as old as 80. In the eyes of your child you will always be a fossil. Don’t be overly discouraged about being a fossil though. Dinosaurs are overly fascinating to a child and they will learn everything possible about them!
Foul-mouthed – Okay, you don’t have to become a father to become foul-mouthed. As a father though it is amazing how quickly you find words that are longer and sometimes shorter than only four letters when you step on a Lego without shoes.
Learning facts together!
Fathers
are
factual!
Fatherhood is a wonderful thing for any man to experience. The letter “F” also simply means you are a father now. Life is changing for the better and you can love, share, laugh and play like you never have before. Being a father is something every man should get to experience at some point in their life because fatherhood is fabulous.
Be sure to check out Andi-Roo at TheWorld4Realz who is writing about a month of controversy in the A to Z +1 August blogging challenge with me! Today is the letter “F” for fatherhood.
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This list nearly encompasses it all. You have thought long & hard about this. The last one I’d add is Fathers are Fart raters. Isn’t it part of the job to rate them as good, very good, Wow!, and WHO DID THAT ONE?!
Pam,
I have a lot of fun writing posts like this. I actually originally stopped at 5 but kept thinking of (as my 3-year-old son would say) “just one more.”
Aaron
By the time you’ve reached the letter Z I hope to hear this alphabet of Fatherhood will become a fun book in it’s own right to amuse the ‘soon to be fathers’ who will be wondering where to get their instruction books on what to do when it happens.
I actually think you might be right David. I can definitely see an A to Z for Productive Fathering!
Aaron
I just have to say Aaron, you really had me going with this post. Remembering all the things I shared with my father. Yes, he is fadeless. Even though he’s been gone since 1987, I think of him as a young man. What really had me laughing was a combination of the “F” words, fossil, foolish and fluent. My poor daddy. In one day, I almost chopped off his head when I pushed the starter on our old 1954 Chevy while he was under the hood. He came jumping out of there like a scalded cat, which was pretty funny; I was about 8 years old and hollered. “I’m too young to die!” I remember looking at him and saying, “gee, you’re 35, you’re practically ancient.” That went over well. Later that evening, we were watching something about Winston Churchill on the TV. Winnie was about 95 and was in the process of dying and they were telling about his storied life. Both of my parents were fantastic historians, my father especially. Like him, I too have a great love of history, but at the time, I was just in awe of all the stuff he knew. I said to him, “Daddy, do you know everything there is to know in the world?” He looked at me for a moment and said, “Mary, if I lived forever, I would never know everything.” He was that kind of a Daddy. But he sure did know bunches and was fun to boot. Great post, Aaron! Mary. <3