“A father's chief duty is not to instruct or to discipline. A father's chief duty is to be present.” ~Tim O'Brien, A Letter To My Son, LIFE (October 15, 2004)
If you have kids or are contemplating having kids, you should try to read the article from which I pulled this quote.
My Locked Thread Of Shame: http://www.evboard.com/showthread.php?p=564645#post564645
http://www.evboard.com/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=1746
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Oct 15 08:37:09 ToB lol Wade
Oct 15 08:37:12 ToB Dhamma
Oct 15 08:37:13 ToB hahaha
Oct 15 08:37:20 Dhamma what?
Oct 15 08:37:27 * Dhamma looks innocent
Oct 15 08:37:31 EmmaTehGoat lol
Oct 15 08:37:33 ToB posting on your IY thread a year after you joined
Oct 15 08:37:52 ToB dr0k
Oct 15 08:37:59 Dhamma can you see deleted posts ToB ?
Oct 15 08:38:30 ToB duh
Oct 15 08:38:32 ToB were you baiting codger?
Oct 15 08:38:50 Dhamma I was baiting whoever wanted to bite first - it just happened to be Codger
Oct 15 08:38:58 ToB lol
Oct 15 08:38:59 ToB idiot
Oct 15 08:39:02 ToB not you
Oct 15 08:39:02 Dhamma what gets me is the two that posted AFTER Jason
Oct 15 08:39:02 ToB him
Oct 15 08:39:09 ToB rofl no shit
Oct 15 08:39:09 Dhamma no no, I'm an idiot too
Oct 15 08:39:12 ToB hilarious
Oct 15 08:39:22 ToB ok ok
Oct 15 08:39:25 ToB you are an idiot, codger is a complete idiot
Oct 15 08:39:29 Dhamma ay
Oct 15 08:39:30 EmmaTehGoat lol
The profound power (and danger) in being a parent is the awesome opportunity to instill core values in your children that they won't dare question until they are much older, if ever. How convinced am I that I am on the “right” path? How certain am I that I'm not damning my sons to years of misconception and strife?
Conscience is the soul of freedom, its eyes, its energy, its life. Without conscience, freedom never knows what to do with itself.
~ Thomas Merton
