Survey Results
Thank you to everyone that responded to the survey. If you haven’t responded yet, feel free to give your response, see The Great Gopher Commands Your Opinion. And sorry, I missed a post yesterday. I was called out of town for what will hopefully be a drastic change of events in my life.
I was thinking about this post on my long drive home and realized that I would have also like to ask people about their favorite memories of their fathers. I think that this would have driven home the point that I want to make. That point is this. Father’s are much more than a provider of a paycheck or child support. Not one person on the survey even mentioned this.
The main lines of thought were this.
#1 A good father is there for the family.
#2 A good father provides consistent discipline and guidance.
#3 A good father demonstrates and teaches the positive traits and morals consistent with his faith,
#4 A good father models continuous learning and makes it fun and friendly for the children
#5 A good father loves his children no matter what, but does not use loving a child as an excuse to allow poor behavior.
June 27th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Ahhh… The Great Gopher has again summated the collective wisdom of the many, and branded it his own for future copyright royalties and benefits. The wisdom of the Great Gopher is great… except he has his skull on the outside of his head… that’s maybe not so wise…
June 28th, 2007 at 2:10 am
My 11 year old’s expert eye has picked up that the Great Gopher is in fact a live pokemon by the name of Cubone. Will you confirm or deny this?
Seriously, I’m looking forward to you continuing to develop these thoughts and this conversation.
June 28th, 2007 at 8:01 am
I can neither confirm nor deny, as I came into the life of my stepdaughter when she had passed the Pokemon stage and my son has not yet reached it. Perhaps he is Cubone, but when I asked him he got really upset and went off in a sulk.
Later, the Great Gopher, as he insists on being called, had this to say about the skull. “It is part fashion statement and part neccesity, thank you very much. How else, am I going to keep such great wisdom protected?”