What Was the Best Advice Your Father Ever Gave You?

[Eagles Field]

And why?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Pray and read your Bible every day.

The world is full of people ready to help you if you approach them in the right way.

Funny but as long as you do the first the second follows.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Don’t get married before you’re at least 26... I waited until I was 44.

Get all of your wanderlust out of your system before you get married and start a family...after college I went to live and work in Europe for 7 years.

[Nifster]

Yeah a penis. Not everyone on FR is a guy you know

[The Westerner]

“When there’s a job to be done, just do it,” said as he rolled up his shirt sleeves and proceeded to do the job himself and we soon followed. Leadership in word and deed.

[Albion Wilde]

“Wash the cleanest dishes first.”

“Don’t associate with communists.”

[Tanniker Smith]

“Don’t get old.”

"Getting old sucks. But it beats the alternative."

He made it to 88.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Remarkable and sobering account on your part. The continuation and preservation of life is what a father’s hand is all about.

[trisham]

I hear you.

[MayflowerMadam]

“His only rule was that his sons would take one semester of typing in high school.”

That was the class that got me started in my career. Latin, the sciences, all the math classes were OK, but Personal Typing was the most practical.

[cpdiii]

“Get a job” I wanted things, so I got a job.

[American in Israel]

Once dad was working on a model train engine that he was building. there was an imperfection on the bottom and I asked him why he was trying to fix it, nobody would know.

He said I know, and continued to repair it.

I have been a craftsman ever since, not a crapsman.

[lilypad]

Be true to your teeth or they’ll be false to you.

[Made In The USA]

My father in law always reminds us as we get in the car to leave, “keep it under a hundred and rubber side down”

[bigmak007]

My dad said you don’t learn to drive by banging fenders...
Almost 50 years of driving and NO accidents.

[Cementjungle]

Stop forgetting to close the screen door or the belt is coming out again.

[Textide]

Put your wallet & keys in the same place every time you come home.

Look for the imperfection in a woman: a crooked tooth, freckles, etc...On the right woman, these make her beautiful more than anything else.

[null and void]

It’s times like this I had listened to what my dad said...

[Bellflower]

Fun to read these. I didn’t grow up with my dad since I was 4. Saw him for the first time at about 29.

Everyone value your dads!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“It takes your whole life to build a good reputation, but only minutes to lose it.”

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Accept your friends, warts and all.”