Does your dad ever make you feel like a failure?
I'm not talking about berating you for not hitting the game winning run, or beating your mom while you watch helplessly. I'm talking about rewiring the house, repairing the cars, re-roofing the garage, building us wooden puppets and toys, and being capable of fixing most anything around the house.
Every time we have to spend money on something for the house, I can't help but thinking of how dad would have been able to do it himself. Me? I have to scurry to the internet to try and figure out how to shim a door so it won't swing open or closed. Even then I'm not sure if I'll get it done right. I'm partway though trying to build Katie a little toy rack, but I'm stuck at the part where I need to start doing the chiseling and I'm nervous about messing it up, so I've left it stacked in the corner of the garage for a month and a half.
I'm taking my bicycles in for a tune-up because the last time I tried it, I made the gearing worse.
I want to be the dad who can fix things for his kids, like my dad was for me.
Every time we have to spend money on something for the house, I can't help but thinking of how dad would have been able to do it himself. Me? I have to scurry to the internet to try and figure out how to shim a door so it won't swing open or closed. Even then I'm not sure if I'll get it done right. I'm partway though trying to build Katie a little toy rack, but I'm stuck at the part where I need to start doing the chiseling and I'm nervous about messing it up, so I've left it stacked in the corner of the garage for a month and a half.
I'm taking my bicycles in for a tune-up because the last time I tried it, I made the gearing worse.
I want to be the dad who can fix things for his kids, like my dad was for me.