John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Fathers and Sons

Fathers and sons.

Tip for the day.

If you are a dad and haven’t complimented your son recently for doing something well, take the time today to do so. You’ll feel better and it will make your son’s day. … I promise.

Whether you are a 25 year old father with a 4 year old son or a 78 year old father with a 49 year son, it always works that way. Always. And it doesn’t matter whether the compliment is about throwing a baseball or writing silly posts on a blog (or Facebook).

Case in point, an email received yesterday from my father.

JYB Sr., JYB Jr. and JYB III circa 1972

“I try to keep up with your blogs (Recovering Politician) and I find most of them entertaining and thought provoking. I just finished catching up with the last week of blogs and you had a good week.What’s so amazing to your father is how informed you are on so many different categories and how uninformed I am.  Guess it’s never too late to try and catch up to be relevant.  Love, Dad (There was a time in my life I thought I was pretty well informed but with the computer information I been left far behind. I’m having more fun learning than ever. Even in my so called twilight years .)”

And if you can throw in a comment about you, as a father, having a weakness, even better.

Not sure why but that seems to help.