Do You Hug Your Father?
 

Hugged your Father lately?

Hugged your Kid's lately?

Do!


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Hugged my daughter on Easter.
Son not into hugging at the moment.
Dad is two thousand miles away. Tough to hug, but call about once a week.

Love to hug him just once more time because would never let him go.
Know we will meet again.

Thanks for posting.

Very moving.


Only just been getting back into it with my parents
after a few absent years. I think I need to visit.

Wish I had done more...........

One of my biggest regrets is not doing it nearly as much as I could have.....and should have.:(

Got three kids - all grown up

Daughter very non-tactile - accepts a light peck on the cheek on arriving and departing - that's the limit.

Her twin brother much more touchy-feely and will hug.

Older son will mainly restrict himself to a firm manly handshake!

Get on very well with all three of them, so I dont feel pressured into a lot of hugging - its not for all families

Daughter, 31 will hug at all opportunities. Son, 33 will hug on arrival/departure. Parents long gone but can't remember much hugging stuff. I think it was a generation thing.

I know I didn't hug him enough.

"Have you laughed at YOUR children today?"

Rodney Dangerfield ( "Caddyshack" etc.)

I would think laughing "with" them would be a better thing! IMHO!

Wish I could!
Both parents died 20ish years ago in my mid 20s due to cancer. Regret them not seeing me get my wings, get married, have 3 beautiful kiddiewinks (in that order). Still gets me down at times!!

I doubt if you would appreciate much else of Rodney Dangerfield's satire then. :)

Didn't we see that video back in February?

At 81 I hug him every chance I get. The hug back is brill.:):):)

What an absolutely brilliant and moving tale. That young man puts to rest all the crap and dismissive put downs our society generally throws at young people. I hug my girls every day - whatever live throws at them they will know that they are loved, just as my parents loved me. I must admit, at times I must have made it hard for them to do so but that is the special grace that parents know I guess.

Hugging you can't get enough.....
 

My son and I were especially close and used to hug and kiss on arrival and departure......I cherished every second with the lad he was a credit to the human race....
Unfortunately and tragically killed in a Jag in Alaska...:{:{:{

My daughter through no fault of her own was nothing like him and I am still waiting for the signs to say that she accepts me for who I am but that will be a very long wait...her loss I'm afraid...

My Dad loved me dearly, but could not hug, nor even say "well done" when I got my wings. However, I praise my sons at every opportunity, and hug them too, which due to distance is not often enough

To quote a USMC Lt Col - "Hell no, that's Hollywood crud!"

LJ :ok:

Wander

My dad told me I'd last 6 months in the Army Reserve and one semester at University !!! Did that get my goat up !!!

My parents are long deceased but I don't recall being hugged by either of them.

Perhaps that was his aim 500N, he knew you would rise to the challenge and succeed. Parents can be canny buggers.

Brian

I have often wondered but have never asked. Maybe I should.

Based on my track record - left a good public school in the UK with nothing
- worked 11 months in a job then said I was quitting to go to College / Uni and join the mil, his assessment was right. Anyway, got the degree and ended up with a Commission which was a bit of a bonus.

Canny.....maybe, but they do get smarter the older the kids get.

"Buzz" Aldrin wrote in his autobiography that his father chided him for only being the " second" man on the moon.

Yes, I read that.

I met him once at a talk he gave, top bloke, really interesting.

500N - sounds like my Grammar School headmaster. But took great delight in returning in uniform after graduation from the Towers with wings and oh so minute PO braid. Job done.

Wander

Good to hear :ok:

I think (from what was said) that I raised a few eyebrows in the UK - family and old school - when it was published in the Old Oundelians magazine re my commission and degree.

I know that year my parents sent around a photo of me in my dress blues in one Xmas card list :rolleyes:

And you did everything you could to prove him wrong...................which was his plan in the first place :)

Kids are gullible.

So it was one of those that they tell you that you have just done about ok, where as they tell everybody else what a genius you are.