I Believe In Being a Dad

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I Believe In Being a Dad When I was fifteen years old, I was caught stealing a deck of cards from a convenience store. When my parents picked me up at the police station, I was scared to think of what they might say. On the way home that day there was not a single word spoken. When we finally arrived home, my father said to me, “Son, you don’t know how much what you have done has hurt your mom and me. But one day, when you have kids of your own, you will know how much you mean to us.” I didn’t know how true those words were until my daughter Kiara was born. I believe in being a good father, and provider to my child. The day my daughter was born, a whole new sense of responsibility came into my life. I had never seen anything as beautiful as her. At that moment my life had changed forever. Now I had the responsibility of taking care of someone else other than myself. This was an entirely new concept for me. Now I had diapers to change, bottles to fix, puke stained clothes to wash, and that is just to start. Not to mention that all that stuff costs money. As she has gotten older, she has grown exponentially smarter. I can now see her trying to do all the things that I do. Several days ago I was sitting on the couch reading the newspaper. When I looked to my right, there was my daughter holding a Sesame Street book upside down trying her best to read it. She was trying so hard to be just like me. This was an example to me that as her father, I have the responsibility of setting a good example. When I became a father, I became my child’s provider. About a year before my daughter was born, I started working at a local plastics factory. Just as with every job I held prior to my daughters’ birth, I fell into a routine of absenteeism, tardiness, and poor work performance. I didn’t have much of a reason to work. As long as I had enough hours in at the end of the

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