Posted on 06/18/2017 12:42:24 PM PDT by Eagles Field
And why?
My dad was a builder - and an okay carpenter - so of course heard the “measure twice cut once” many times.
He would also give the Skill saw a quick test and then say “It growls.” He said the saw STILL gave him the willies - he still had all of his fingers, so he figured that wasn’t the worst attitude to have!
I recall when we built the “nicest outhouse on Lake Minnewawa” (cedar shake roof!) we had this goofy 2x4 to cut on the side of the roof - was angled down but at an angle - had to make three cuts at the end and then fit it up inside.
It took three different boards to finally get it right! We continued to laugh about that one.
I find myself thinking like my old man more and more.
If was was laying around and had stuff to be done he would always say “Time is fleeting”. I HATED that at 15 years old. Of course - he was right, and it is.
My “life rules” for my kids that they all know:
1) Life isn’t fair.
2) Nothing is easy.
3) It’s always something.
4) God is Sovereign
My dad came into my room late one night and said “ son if you keep doing that you’ll go blind”. I said, dad I’m over here!
God helps those who help themselves.
Don’t tug on Superman’s cape
Don’t spit into the wind
Don’t pull the mask off the lone ranger
And you don’t mess around with Jim
Don’t be a quitter
Nobody owes you a thing in life.
They only talked about over protective and permissive... I think structured, fairly strict (not abusive) parenting usually produces normal productive adults that are more satisfied with life; not living happily ever after like a fairy tale- but generally happy. Of course I believe faith in God will help tremendously every step of the way.
If you are raised to expect others to make you happy you will be miserable.
If you are raised to believe life is fair you will be miserable.
If you are raised to believe life will be easy you will be miserable.
If you are raised to believe you are not responsible for your actions you will be miserable.
If you are raised to believe you don’t have to work hard and be an honest productive self reliant person you will be miserable.
Just based on my own experiences.
My dad has been gone for over 50 years but he taught us more by example than by words. He was the most compassionate loving dad to both man and beast. During the depression (1936) he suggested to a neighbor who had lost his home that he could spend a few nights on our pull-out couch in the living room. That neighbor stayed three years and none of us resented him.
For years dad went next door to his fathers farm every single night at nine o’clock after the news to give the animals an extra bit of hay and grain and to check on their well-being. During cold winter days dad mixed mash with hot water for his hens saying, “they need something warm in their bellies”.
Neither mom or dad raised their voice or hand to us younguns. A word or gesture of disappointment from them for any of our actions hurt us more than physical punishment.
Mom was a stay-at-home mother and a RN so occasionally she would take on a private duty assignment as a favor to a friend or neighbor. Dad absolutely HATED this but saw the necessity. On one of these assignments, dad was reluctantly doing breakfast dishes when I showed him the egg he had left on the plate to which he told me, “ just put the dish in the cupboard. You’ll be having eggs tomorrow morning.”
At 85 years of age and after more than 50 years, I still miss dad.
If you stay out dancing until 1 am on Saturday you can be at church at 11am on Sundays.
Don’t curse your competitor’s...as one day you might have to work for them. (He was a salesman..and a damn good one!)
Don’t work on Sundays.
Don’t leave the house with 25 cents in your purse...so he’d hand me $5....
Graduate from college. I’ll pay all 4 years and when you graduate I’ll buy you any car you want....all three of us didn’t achieve this...
I thank God for the father he gave me. Not a perfect man but was a Christian father despite having 4 girls and 4 granddaughters! We’re totally blessed!
Ummm, it’s The Onion...
or hunt them down and eat them for food...lol
not sure if you have ever seen this. Thought I would share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozpdBvB0hek its about a Nam battle the 173rd was in.
The Smartest kid is the one who realizes he doesn’t know everything.”
Love this!!
Don’t let WANT be your master.
“Never hit first. But if someone hits you, level them.”
“It’s times like this when I wish I had listened to what my father told me.”
“What did he say?”
“I don’t know - I didn’t listen!”
Good story, good memories, good advise.
I never hated the things Dad would say but they did get under my skin because he was usually right and doing what was right usually meant doing something harder than not!
Can’t see a thing wrong with those observations.
Dad was often to say to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. He also said, always happy but never satisfied. It kept us all reaching for the stars as he said it.
They don’t make ‘em like that much anymore.
My Grandmother told Mom to never marry a man who didn’t love children or animals and she didn’t. It turned out well.
Mom’s parents have been gone right at 60 years and she tells me every Sunday how much she misses them.
Tradition, we’ll never make it without it.
“To never volunteer,” I learned the hard way when I joined the army.
I got the same advice from my Dad, a WW I veteran, when my turn to serve came in 1963.
It helps me reign myself in when I get too proud and keeps me more grounded and less apt to go ballistic because someone "dissed" me.
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