Father's Day

Father's Day is coming up on Sunday. I see a lot of people asking what they should get the fathers in their lives, watches, sports tickets, big TVs, etc. What I wonder is, haven't these men already been given the greatest gift in the whole world?
That's not to say that we don't occasionally need a break from our children or that they don't drive us crazy, but they also give us something wonderful. Children give joy, a sense of being needed, of being important and necessary. Young children think their parents are cooler than anybody else in the whole world. We're funny, we know everything, we can do anything, we are awesome. What could be more awesome than to spend the day with these little people?
I think the heavy lifting (diapers, baths, etc.) should be the purview of mom so on Father's Day he just gets to enjoy all the fun parts of being a father and somebody makes him a good dinner. I know in some households this is just a normal day, but in ours James works hard at being a father.
I know a lot of fathers on Sunday will spend the day watching TV, or golfing, or napping and not being fathers, but I think it would be wonderful if more fathers would spend the day with the little people who made them fathers in the first place. After all, if you're looking to be celebrated, there's nobody better to do that than your children.

My children are lucky. Their father changes diapers, has water gun fights, reads stories, has tickle fights, laughs at their jokes, tells them they're awesome, that he loves them. He also plays the bad guy when he has to. He is a good dad and on Father's Day we will celebrate all the wonderful things he does as a father, and he will spend the day being one. We don't do anything more special than maybe a card and I make him something special for dinner. It's enough that he knows his children love him, his wife loves him, and he's doing a good job. It doesn't cost an arm and a leg, but it is priceles.