My Dad Can Do Anything!!


Funny how adding years to your life 

can also add perspective to your years. 


 A Child  says at:



4 years:  My daddy can do anything.

7 years:  My dad knows a lot, a whole lot.

8 years:  My father doesn't know quite everything.

12 years:  Oh, well, naturally Father doesn't know that, either.

14 years:  Father?  Hopelessly old-fashioned.

21 years:  Oh, that man is out-of-date.  What did you expect?

25 years:  He knows a little bit about it, but not much.

30 years:  Maybe we ought to find out what Dad thinks.

35 years:  A little patience.  Let's get Dad's 

assessment before we do anything.

50 years:  I wonder what Dad would have thought 

about that.  He was pretty smart.

60 years:  My dad knew absolutely everything!

65 years:  "I'd give anything if Dad were here so I could talk this over

with  him.  I really miss that man."



-This essay appeared in Ann Landers, "Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!"

(New York: Villard, 1996)