I got this email from a friend, from his friend. Must be the season for it 
When I was 4 Years Old : My father is THE BEST
When I was 6 Years Old : My father seems to know everyone
When I was 10 Years Old : My father is excellent but he is short tempered
When I was 12 Years Old : My father was nice when I was little
When I was 14 Yrs Old : My father started being too sensitive
When I was 16 Years Old : My father can’t keep up with modern time
When I was 18 Years Old : My father is getting less tolerant as the days pass by
When I was 20 Years Old : It is too hard to forgive my father, how could my Mum stand him all these years
When I was 25 Years Old : My father seems to be objecting to everything I do
When I was 30 Years Old: It’s very difficult to be in agreement with my father, I wonder if my Grandfather was troubled by my father when he was a youth
When I was 40 Years Old: My father brought me up with a lot of discipline, I must do the same
When I was 45 Years Old: I am puzzled, how did my father manage to raise all of us
When I was 50 Years Old : It’s rather difficult to control my kids, how much did my father suffer for the sake of upbringing and protecting us
When I was 55 Years Old: My father was far looking and had wide plans for us, he was gentle and outstanding.
When I became 60 Years Old: My father is THE BEST
Note that it took 56 Years to complete the cycle and return to the starting point “My father is THE BEST”
Let’s be good to our parents before it’s too late and pray to GOD that our own children will treat us even better than the way we treated our parents .
5 responses so far ↓
1 Moomykin // Apr 17, 2008 at 8:44 PM
*just nodding my head*
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2 Florence // Apr 18, 2008 at 6:20 AM
We have to go through the same experiences as our parents did, before we fully understand how much they have sacrificed for us. That’s life my friend. Pray hard that our children will treat us well!!
3 Ann // Apr 18, 2008 at 9:21 AM
We always appreciate our parents more when we go through what they have gone through!
Then we sigh and wish we had done some things differently in relation to them!
There will always be a generation gap that starts small, grows bigger and then ends small. Looks like the older our parents get, the slower they age!
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4 Jeremy (Discovering Dad) // Apr 18, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Very thought provoking post. I’m about halfway through the list in my life, and I already feel like my father is the best! He inspires me to be a good dad too.
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5 Daddee // Apr 18, 2008 at 2:45 PM
There are actually 2 lists in there. For me, I read it that the “tipping point” is at the age of 40, when we are starting to become short tempered to (our) the 10 year old child.
It is thought provoking. I found myself comparing the list with my dad, who raised 5 kids with a SAHM. Perhaps it was a lot easier back then, but I do also believe there is no “easy time” at anytime- it’s what we make of our circumstances and situations *at the time* (ie like now, for ourselves too).
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