What It Means To Be a Father.

One of the greatest misconceptions about parenting is that kids need perfection.

They do not.

They need presence.

They need to know that when they are excited, someone is there to celebrate.

When they fail, someone is there to help lift them up.

When they are scared, someone is there to remind them they are not facing the world alone, help teach them courage and strength.

Fatherhood is measured less by grand gestures and more by a thousand ordinary moments. It’s not always a thankful job, let me tell you.

A father does not own his children.

He guides them.

His job is not to create copies of himself but to help them become the fullest version of themselves.

Sometimes it means protecting.

Sometimes it means teaching.

Sometimes it means stepping back and allowing them to fail.

The goal is not dependence.

The goal is strength, character, and confidence.

A father’s success is revealed when his kids can stand on their own.

Fatherhood asks for patience when patience is difficult.

It asks for sacrifice when sacrifice is inconvenient, even when no one else can see it.

It asks for consistency when consistency is exhausting. EXHAUSTING.

It can make a man better than he would have been alone.

Being a father means choosing, day after day, to invest in a future you can’t comprehend.

It means planting trees whose shade you may never sit under.

It means understanding that the most important things you build may not be businesses, projects, or objects, but people and relationships.

And if your children grow up knowing they were loved, valued, challenged, protected, and believed in, then regardless of what else happens, you did it.

I love you Greyson. I’m proud to be your dada, and I’d walk the edge of this earth for you, again and again.

Happy Father’s Day Yall.