seen some good mentions in the "spank or don't spank your kids" thread.

let's hear some fatherly advice....

 

"You gotta make money off your friends...cause your enemies don't come see you!"

This of course applies to business...I don't go around charging all my friends for everything I can think of!

Chris

 

"Think before you speak."

"If you can't think of a good reason for doing something....don't do it."

 

Best quality........ There's a lot. I think second only to his love for god, I'd say are his work ethics. When I was very, very young my dad was always working to make ends meet. He was in the Navy. When he wasn't on a West-Pac Tour, he'd be working at Miramar NAS during the day. At night he'd work a graveyard shift at the gas station garage re-building motors and such. On his days off he'd re-build friends motors and such. Later he got his own company in trucking/road const and he always worked so we ALWAYS had; what ever IT may have been. But he was still there for us, baseball, school, etc. I believe I learned my hard-working work ethics from him. My pop is now 58 and still works more hours then some kid who just got his CDL. Heck when he's not in the truck working, he's home re-modeling or doing yard work or ???? The man doesn't know how to sit still!!!!!!

 

My Dad's best quality: My Daddy had so many qualities! The best quality was the Love and Support for his family!

 

my dad was in an orphanage even though his father was around, just didn't want the 13 children. He was a ornamental iron business owner and used the oldest son for an unpaid laborer. to get out of the orphange (think very bad times, one sister was beaten to death) the two brothers went to work for the father. yep, no pay and all the overtime.

my dad had a choice to be mean or nice. His best quality was that he could think and did not act from emotion, he had a lot of love and talent. even though he worked two jobs and owned a bar, I always felt that he had all the time in the world for me. He often saw an uncle who was a neighbor, come home every day at 4:30pm to be with his kids before supper and their bedtime (before the orphanage). He wanted that from his Dad, but never got it. He was always there for my brother and me- school stuff, sports, church, and work for your allowance. He could make anything, fix anything and had a fantastic art talent, but worked in car and truck parts for over 50 years. value of a steady job.

He taught me to value my purchase, not the cheapest and not the best.
To plan ahead and look out for your kid. (lucky to have him and my mom around for a bit to be grandparents!!)
when I wanted to work late in the city, but was only 15 (yeah, you could do that then) he made me "fight" him to see if I could handle myself.
Proud to be a stubborn german's kid....

Here's to you (Mom) and Dad!! all my accomplishments came from you believing in me! wish i was a perfect kid. you deserve it!
weepy but happy smiley inserted here!
Heidi

 

I didn't even notice the quality part.

Well, my dad's best quality was giving advice about everyting under the sun. I didn't even understand why he was telling me the random things he thought I should know. Now I lookk back on my life and know that without that random advice I'd have found myself in many a situation without a clue of what to do.

He is one of those people who refuse to pay anyone to do what he can do on his own. I learned how to paint(houses), draw, work on cars, build houses or anything else, fabricate parts we needed, fix computers, cook, and most of all play just about any sport(including bar games like pool, darts, ping pong, you name it he's better than you at it). I've never beat him at anything except foosball. He can go years without playing pool or ping pong and murder me every time even though I play at least once a week. We play golf toghther and he calls me when he can't figure out a computer problem even though he taught me everything I know. I guess he wanted the student to surpass the teacher. He was a hard *** though. Wouldn't let me do anything stupid. Made me get good grades, and was never just mean( I've seen lots of dads be mean to their kids for no reason). He even taught me how to shoot. I actually can't think of all the things I have learned from him.

I think the best part about him is the fact that his mother told him at a young age that children ruined your life and you would never have any fun after you have them. He believed her until after I was born. Then he realized he had a clean slate to work with. He is a coach for every sport my sister plays.

It's amazing how your perception of your parents' changes when you get older and realize why they did what they did raizing me. I'm more level headed than ANYBODY I know and am always the guy telling my friends "don't do that your gonna hurt yourself." I haven't been wrong yet. I'm very proud to be that stubborn German's kid. I wouldn't want things any other way.

Thanks Dad.

 

I believe one of my Dad's best quality's was how he related to people. Another words it didn't matter if you were filthy rich or dirt poor you were still treaded with the same respect. I always remember him telling me to treat a person the way you would want to be treated, with respect and never cuss the water boy because he might be your boss on the next job. He was a chariable Dad, if someone was in trouble he would do what he could to help out, I witnessed that several times. I do miss him now since he passed away 8/29/94 from complications of diabetes at a young age of 60. I will see him again though in the next life for sure and we can pick up where we left off in this world.

Tony

 

My dads best quality was that I never met him.

If I had a dad, I dont think I would be the dad I am today.

 

best quality, clear sense of right and wrong and always does what is right. for someone who has never served in the military, he has a stronger sense of duty than anyone i have ever met. you may not like where he stands on a subject but you know where he stands and you know where he stands is right

he came to the US from Mexico 30+ years ago, started working and has not stopped since but in the mean time he had 5 kids who graduated from college that are all professionals in the business world, managed to stay married to my mom all along and bought me my first Dodge. I would do pretty darn good for myself if I end up half the man. Thanks Dad!

 

My Father had the patience of Jobe. I never seen him lose his cool, there were times you could see he was about to erupt but never did. I could do something unbeleiviably stupid and he would calmy tell why I shoudn't have done that and what my punishment would be , and go to my room and wait.
He was a great teacher I learned 1/2 of everything I know from Dad the other half from Mother.
He was a strong beleiver in the Lord and brought 4 boys to know and love him too.

Jed

 

My father treated most everyone with respect! He was a police officer for 35 years, he probably only wrote 20 tickets in the whole time, if you were doing 50 in a 30 he would pull you over and if you were respectful he would give you a warning, if you were a jerk there was a chance he would crack you in the jaw.

When he died last year there were even a few people he had arrested in the past at his funeral service, I think that says alot about his character.

 

thats respect!

 

Mine was "Stay out of the San Diego Jail" and "You'll screw it up". Various other stuff in there, but those are the 2 that stuck.

 

You got it Cin. I can't list the good qualities of my dad or my mom. There are just to many. I can honestly say that I have the best parents a kid could ever want no matter how mean I thought they were while I was growing up. I love my parents to death and I wouldn't trade them for the world.