FATHER'S DAY WEEKEND

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HAVE A HAPPY AND HEALTHY FATHER'S DAY WEEKEND FOR ALL DADS, GRANDPAS, AND GODFATHERS!

Father's Day was reportedly founded by Sonora Smart Dodd, a woman from Spokane, Washington. Ms. Dodd was inspired to create the holiday after attending a Mother's Day church service in 1909. She was the daughter of a Civil War veteran named William Jackson Smart, who had raised her and her five siblings as a single father.

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Sunday, June 18 marks a special occasion that honors the pillar of strength, guidance, and love in our lives – Father's Day. On this day, people around the world take the opportunity to express their appreciation for their fathers and father figures who have played an essential role in shaping their lives.

I received the following message message sent by a brother from a different mother… Hope you’re having an idyllic weekend filled with blessings from your beautiful daughters and you grandchildren ‼️
Please send them my love ❤️⭕️❤️⭕️ 

So much of what young #parents stress about doesn’t matter, Peter Sagal writes. A child is a person, and what kind of person they will be is largely beyond your control.

Sagal was married before and has older children—three of them, all now adults. But in 2019, he and his second wife decided to start their own family together. He now has two younger children. He’s heard jokes about how his back is holding up and been mistaken for their grandfather. A man chasing a toddler almost six decades younger than him around a playground is worthy of note; as he writes, they’re supposed to have more sophisticated things to do than change diapers. But as an older dad, “I have knowledge, and I have wisdom, both of which I sorely lacked 25 years ago, when my first child was born.”

One of the lessons he has learned is not to be surprised when there are moments of #stress,   https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/fatherhood-older-pare…

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