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always home and uncool — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:20:29 -0000

Here's my entry: http://blogonkevin.blogspot.... I have also subscribed. Happy belated Dad's Day.

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jnbammer — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:31:28 -0000

I agree! If you don't roll with the punches, then you're definitely going to get beat up as a parent.

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jnbammer — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:30:33 -0000

Thanks Tom!

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DC Urban Dad — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:17:17 -0000

Hey there Jeremy - I subscribed and following you on Twitter great idea for a contest.

My dad has always told me that to be a Dad, I need to be able to roll with the punches and be prepared for the unexpected.

Even at 3 am with a screaming kid I would not trade it for anything.

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windycindy — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:11:16 -0000

I hope you around for them and as well as my dad is! Cindi

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Tom — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:00:31 -0000

Hi Jeremy. Already subscribed, don't have anything poignant to post today. Had ideas, not enough time to develop them. Anyway... looking forward to reading others.

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jnbammer — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:03:46 -0000

Thanks Daniel!

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jnbammer — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:03:27 -0000

I hope I am still around for my kids at 90!

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jnbammer — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:02:34 -0000

Wow Viv - that's a very heartfelt, inspirational story! Thanks for sharing it. Your Dad sounds like a very good man!

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Daniel De Guia — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:21:56 -0000

Here's a post I wrote about mi padre: http://www.deguia.net/2008/...

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windycindy — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:45:34 -0000

"Amen!" Dad will be turning 90 in July......Thanks, Cindi

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Viv — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:43:32 -0000

Hey, Jeremy, I follow you on Twitter already, so I signed up for your feed, and I thought about one the things that I learned from my Dad that most stuck with me.

My Dad is hard-working, earnest, conscientious guy with an incredibly rock-solid work ethic who raised, along with my Mom, three quirky daughters. These days, I am a cynical, free-wheeling Mom of two boys, but I still remember when I was a little girl, waiting up until late at night for Daddy to come home. My Dad worked the 3-11 pm shift, and I would hear Mom pattering around the house in her slippers, waiting for him, way past my bedtime. It was only after I heard him come in every evening and lock the door firmly behind him that I sleep, because only then did I truly felt safe in my little-girls' bedroom with the white and yellow flowered curtains. To this day, I go around checking the locks in my home at night. And I never seem to get to sleep until past that eleven o'clock mark.

But the biggest lesson my Dad ever taught me was cooperation. "One hand washes another," he used to say, and that's true. The best relationships and partnerships I have today come from that central idea, that people help each other, and that each one of us has a responsibility to give back.

Except Dads don't really expect anything back. I watched my Dad take care of his own parents until they passed away a few years ago. I remember him doing many things above and beyond the call of duty for us kids, like making a late 'Taco Bell run' on a Friday night while we all watched TV together after his work week was done and I know he would rather have just stayed put at home. The ice-cream man never went by our house without us kids running outside holding up a dollar from Dad. There's no doubt he and Mom sacrificed a lot in their lives so that my sisters and I could go to college--we grew up in Florida, and I know Mom and Dad didn't have air conditioning in their home until I was a teen. And Mom never had a dishwasher, and Dad put off buying big-ticket items for a long time. My parents never even moved into a new house until after I, their youngest daughter, was married and had a home of her own.

So I guess it's only fitting that I spend at least a little time today letting my Dad know that I do remember those things he's done for us girls, and that I hope I am doing half the job raising my own kids as he and Mom did raising theirs.

Thanks, Dad. And Happy Father's Day!

~Viv
http://coolmomsrule.blogspo...

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jnbammer — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:11:49 -0000

Great sacrifice = great reward! Thanks Cindy!

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jnbammer — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:10:43 -0000

I wholeheartedly agree Charlie! Thanks!

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windycindy — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:34:34 -0000

Happy Father's Day! I hope you are having lovely weather like we are to celebrate your day!
I subscribed via my Yahoo reader and to your newsletter. Growing up, my dad worked three jobs at a time to take care of his family. He taught me the value of work and making your own way as much as possible. Please enter me in your wonderful contest. I appreciate it!~ Cindi

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CharliePATpk — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:21:15 -0000

Being after noon (Eastern), I raise a toast to you and all the dads on this Father's Day.

The one important thing I've learned from my father is that you never stop learning how to be a dad.

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jnbammer — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:47:57 -0000

Thanks Judy! I appreciate both the post and the subscribe!

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Judy Schwartz Haley — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:45:30 -0000

Hi Jeremy

here's my Fathers' Day Post: http://coffeejitters.blogsp...

and I subscribed too.

Happy Fathers Day