When I was:<\/p>\n
4 years old: My daddy can do anything.<\/p>\n
5 years old: My daddy knows a whole lot.<\/p>\n
6 years old: My dad is smarter than your dad.<\/p>\n
8 years old: My dad doesn’t know exactly everything.<\/p>\n
10 years old: In the olden days, when my dad grew up, things were sure different.<\/p>\n
12 years old: Oh, well, naturally, Dad doesn’t know anything about that. He is too old to remember his childhood.<\/p>\n
14 years old: Don’t pay any attention to my dad. He is so old- fashioned.<\/p>\n
21 years old: Him? My Lord, he’s hopelessly out-of-date.<\/p>\n
25 years old: Dad knows about it, but then he should, because he has been around so long.<\/p>\n
30 years old: Maybe we should ask Dad what he thinks. After all, he’s had a lot of experience.<\/p>\n
35 years old: I’m not doing a single thing until I talk to Dad.<\/p>\n
40 years old: I wonder how Dad would have handled it. He was so wise.<\/p>\n
50 years old: I’d give anything if Dad were here now so I could talk this over with him. Too bad I didn’t appreciate how smart he was. I could have learned a lot from him.<\/p>\n
Author: Unknown.
\nThis poem, was in a Ann Landers Column for Fathers Day in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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