A father's most important task

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Here's a recent post from Cloud Couplets:

For His Children

by Randal Matheny

For children, a father will do best
To love their mother above the rest.

.:*^*:. .:*^*:. .:*^*:. .:*^*:. .:*^*:. .:*^*:. .:*^*:. In 1963, Theodore Hesburgh wrote in the Reader's Digest, "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." Was Hesburgh right? What do you think?

-- Randal at home in Brazil (randal@onebox.com), February 27, 2002

Answers

Absolutely.

Our children determine whether they should love and respect others through what they see in the home.

-- Rick in SW West Virginia (Rick_122@hotmail.com), February 27, 2002.


Not being a father I do not know for sure, but I would suggest a father should have children wonder whether he loved them or their mother the most.

-- mitch hearn (moopups@citlink.net), February 27, 2002.

From Metheny to Matheny -

I think you're right Randal & I am blessed to have a husband who loves me very much & I'm pleased that my daughter will grow up learning from him.

It also goes both ways.......We need to love our husbands just as importantly.

THANKS for sharing ;)

-- heather (h.m.metheny@att.net), February 27, 2002.


I think Our Heavenly Father intended for husbands to love thier wives and wives to love thier husbands more than thier children and somewhat differently of course. As my husband and I have leraned we are together forever and our children will someday leave us to make thier own way.Our grown and married son told his wife he would do for her as his father had done for his mother,they are watching and listening and learning.

-- willa in IL. (goodall6@hotmail.com), February 27, 2002.

I would amend the original quote to take into account the spiritual commitment. But having made that caveat, I would also agree that the marital bond is more important than the commitment to one's children. That's not to say that both husband and wife won't do a lot of sacrificing for their children. Often they will set aside their needs to care for the kids.

I picked up Ross Campbell's How to Love Your Teenager this afternoon, and that was one of his first points. The teen needs a stable family situation to become a mature person.

-- Randal at home in Brazil (randal@onebox.com), February 28, 2002.



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