How To Love A Child - A Daddy's Guide

There are countless books, blogs and advice givers (who the loudest are, ironically, the one's without kids) who "teach" you how you should raise your children.  Since much of this advice centers around encouraging your children, showing them respect and disciplining when necessary but also giving them wings to fly, I don’t feel the need to re-hash that.  Those are probably all written by Mom’s anyway – well, except for the ones written by those who have no children. 

So, let’s look at how to love a child - from a Daddy's perspective!

1.   Build a fort out of couch cushions

2.  Tie a pillow case around your neck and fly like Superman

3.   Let them pop all the bubble wrap

4.   Develop plans to build a space ship (or a Death Star!)

5.   Blow bubbles – and don’t worry if it spills!

6.   Eat dessert first

7.   Hold up you’re pinkie and talk in an English accent when drinking tea

8.   Let them color…outside the lines

9.   “Monsters in your closet you say?” – “Good thing Daddy was hard at work in his secret lab creating his ‘Monster Repellent’.  Now let me spray your room so you can go to sleep!

10. It's OK to say “Yes” even when you don’t want to (sometimes)

11. Try to find them during hide and seek…and fail

12. When your child says “look at me daddy”…look at them…and act really, really impressed no matter what they do

13. Create a drum set out of pots and pans

14. When you shake their hand, wince in pain because they are soooo strong and ask to see their  muscles

15. Tell them that the Cake they made was the BEST EVER (Sorry Mommy!)

16. Have breakfast for dinner

17. Let them pick out their own clothes, and don’t worry if they do not match

18. Act scared when they roar like a dinosaur

19. Teach them the "Superfly Snuka" leap onto the bed
20. Wear the tie they gave you

21. Be interested in what they want to do, not what you want them to do
22. Make up a story - any story, in which "INSERT YOUR CHILD'S NAME HERE" saved the world!

23. Remember what it was like to be a kid

24. Laugh…a lot