Just Show Up, Dad

Listen, being a dad is the hardest job nobody prepared you for. No instruction manual,

no practice rounds, just you trying to figure it out as you go. And some days you

feel like you're failing. Like you're not doing enough, not present enough,

not patient enough. But here's what your kids will remember. They won't remember the times you were

tired. They won't remember when work stressed you out or when you lost your cool

over spilled juice. What they'll remember is that you showed up. Every single day,

you showed up. That bedtime story when you were exhausted? They'll remember. That weekend you

turned off your phone to play with them? They'll remember. Those moments you