Dad’s Dreams For His Kids Here At Father’s Day

With Father’s Day fast approaching, Dad comes to the forefront and during this time, you might find yourself wondering about Dad and his dreams.  Actually, in my opinion, Dad spends more time dreaming for his kids than we're given credit. 

Whether we’ve got an athletic son that we would love to see in the Major League or NFL or a daughter we can picture in her Miss America sash, we want them to do so much more than we thought we ever could.

Course, we don’t always have the same dream for all our kids.  We dream different things for each individual child.  While we might dream for one to win the Nobel Peace Prize, we dream another does less than 5 to 10 in a minimum security prison.  We dream for one to be President and another to pass his G.E.D. before he’s 30.

And it makes you wonder what our Dads dreamed for us. I look at the guys I grew up with. One’s a dentist, another the president of a steel company, and another one has a huge cattle ranch inTexas. Then, there’s me. I just can’t imagine my Dad sitting at on our porch when I was 13 years old, day-dreaming about the day his son would be getting up at 4 o'clock every morning and heading to a radio station where for four hours he’d drink coffee, sling a stream of bull deep enough to drown in and have the audacity to call it a job.

I’ve been doing this nearly 30 years and I’ll bet he still believes that one day his son’s gonna grow up and get a real job. No, he’s not disappointed in me, but I think he still doesn’t understand why in the world someone would pay me to do this.

“Son, you’re just talking," he'll say. "I do that for free.”  And what about dads who would have never dreamed of the things their kids would accomplish? Think about Bill Gates' dad. He was probably always getting onto little Billy about “spending too much time playing with all those little toys.”  I can hear him now: “Young man, if you spent as much time studying your history lessons as you do playing with your little gadgets, you might be able to get a college scholarship.”  Yeah, that road had a few curves in it, didn’t it?

Then there’s Phil Robertson, the Duck Commander. He was actually a great quarterback at Louisiana Tech. Imagine his Dad saying, "You’re gonna quit football? To play around in a duck blind? Well, not while you’re living in my house!”

Yeah, Dads can be wrong...and a lot more often than they'll admit.  But, just because Dad seems so rough on the outside, and truly does play second fiddle to Mom most of the time, don't ever think he's not thinking about his kids.  They are his greatest legacy and they'll be the ones to choose his retirement home, so he wants nothing but the best for them.