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What do I love most about being a dad?
I'm gonna go with one that probably seems simple but
I literally just tucked my kids in bed
15 minutes ago.
Hearing them tell me how much they love me
and asking me to pray with them
is always pretty sweet at night.
I think the most challenging part for me personally as a dad
is the time that I'm required to spend away from home
and away from them.
It's difficult and gets harder and harder
each time I have to go on the bus.
If I were home every night, every day,
you know you send 'em to school
or you send 'em to daycare.
You're not around them during the day
whenever it may be is trusting that somebody's gonna
ensure their safety,
take care of 'em,
close to the way that you do.
As far as how we stay connected
we Facetime a lot,
we talk on the phone a lot.
We have this really cool system in our house where
I can get on my phone and it's called intercom.
I can wake the kids up and it goes straight to each one
of em's bedroom.
Patience is the thing that I've maybe learned most
from them and I think also that
and I think maybe these two tie together.
The fact that everybody has their own personality
and ideals on how to handle any and every situation.
My dad specifically told me
when I was probably 12, 13, 14 years old that
I could do anything or be anything that
I wanted to do or be.
As I apply it to my own life
I would have to say that that would be the best advice
because I've proven to myself that
what they told me has been proven true.
Being a father now
I love most about my dad that
my dad loves me more than anything in this world.
Again being a father now
he's taught me the love that a father should have
for his children.
I hope to pass every southern value
down to my kids.
I think probably the one that is maybe most important to me
is manners.
As a guy I was taught to open doors
and never walk in front of a lady.
Yes ma'am, yes sir.
No ma'am, no sir.
Please, thank you, et cetera.
And that's still a work in progress in my home
but we do work on it daily and
I do believe that maybe we do have some shortcomings
in the south but manners we're not short on.
You know, I wanna teach 'em a little bit of
everything south.