FATHER’S DAY

“One time my kids wanted to surprise me with a good breakfast in bed on Father's Day. They put a cot in the kitchen.”

While fatherhood is a serious business, you cannot deny the fun and craziness involved in it for both the dad and the kids. A father holds a magnificent place on this planet.

A father ocean catfish is a true example of a devoted father. He carries the eggs of his young is his mouth until they are ready to be born, which may take up to several weeks. During that time, he cannot eat a thing!
Penguins are another good example; Father penguins keep on their feet in arctic temperatures for sixty days or more to protect his eggs. He hides them on top of his feet, hiding them with feathered flap. Like the catfish, he cannot eat for the duration of his guard of the eggs.

These were just two examples of the fathers in the animal kingdom. Fathers I mean human fathers this time; have more responsibilities towards their kids and they strive to fulfill them in a rather clumsy way [no offense dads!]just to please their little ones, which is admirable and cute most of the time I should say… so in order to appreciate them in a special way Father’s day is celebrated every third Sunday of the month of June.

It might thought that Father’s day was a holiday invented by greeting card companies to increase sales, considering the fact that it was proclaimed a national holiday after nearly sixty years since Mother’s day was made a national holiday. However, all you dads out there, people just took time to recognize you and appreciate you… especially one single woman’s idea to appreciate her dad was the root to this whole idea.

The first father’s day was observed in Spokane, Washington in 1910. Sonora Louise Smart Dodd, of Washington, first proposed the idea of a "father's day" in 1909. Mrs. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, who was widowed when his wife died in childbirth with their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself. Mrs. Dodd wanted Father's Day to be celebrated on the first Sunday in June, her father's birthday.

However, the Spokane council couldn't get the resolution through the first reading until the third Sunday in June. Over the next decade, cities across America began celebrating a day for fathers and in 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day.

It wasn't until 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day. In 1972, President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday of June.

The white or red rose is the official flower for Father's Day. Mrs. Dodd suggested that people wear a white rose to honor a father who was deceased and a red rose for a father who was living.

Our loving dads are…indescribable, mysterious human beings who are loved by all. Well here are some sayings and stories about our lovable, caring, responsible dads:

"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all,
and the enemy of all." -- J. August Strindberg

"To be a successful father . . . there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years." -- Ernest Hemingway

"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." -- Bill Cosby

A father is always making his baby into a little woman.  And when she is a woman he turns her back again.  - Enid Bagnold

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby

"Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. Think about your father: He doesn't know where anything is. You ask him to do something, he messes it up and your mother sends you: "Go down and see what your father's doing before he blows up the house." He's a genius at work because he doesn't want to do it, and he knows someone will be coming soon to stop him." -- Bill Cosby

On the whole, dads have an awful lot going for them. We love them for all the things they do, and forgive them for all the things they don't. As children we strive to be just like them, and even as adults, dads are frequently the ones we look to first for help, guidance, and acceptance. So thanks all you dads, we're blessed to have you in our lives.
Happy Father's Day! From us at Bizymoms.com!