Great weekends are made to be relived.
We females get no rights of passage dammit.
Where are ours?????? I have never heard of moms or dads planning a big party for a daughter when she gets her first period. No big hoopla when she becomes pregnant all the party's are not for her but for the baby.
About the only people getting married today are Gay, so to spend $20,000 on a wedding that may last 4 years is nuts.
Where was my Mom when I turned 21, not out buying me my first legal drink, not there cheering me on when I got my first divorce. Not there when I remarried. Darn my Mom refused to take me to get a tattoo when I turned 18, or even give me a birthday party after I turned sweet 16.
Now Dad did things his own way, the best memories I have of him was the times we went out and about together just us two. He in a way treated me like the son he never had, the few times we raised hell was in Hawaii out of sight of Mom. New years we spent the day setting up firecrackers around the yard so when the traditional Hawaiian new years came in we could celebrate with everyone else.
When the time came Mom came flying out of the house and acted like we had set a barn on fire. Mom has no sense of adventure. Had I been a son or grandson mom would have enjoyed it.
For some reason men take right of passage very seriously for their sons, Woman don't give it a thought.
For the men out there, sons and daughters need a right of passage, if you buy a son a gun, buy one for your daughter and train her to use it. If you take a son on a beer tasting trip, do so for your daughter. If you teach your son to sail, teach your daughters also.
Come the time you are 6 feet under the boys will occasionally perhaps once a year remember the bonding experience, but a daughter will often in their lives remember lessons taught by a grandfather or father that stick with with them for the rest of their lives.--------Example at perhaps 8 years old I walked in on my grandpa that was doing a wood project and was cleaning off his tools. He mentioned off hand that if a man took care of his tools, the tools would take care of him.--------Went on in life to clean my sewing machine, and all things including care of my car.
Good dad you are, just don't forget the girls and if their mother objects ------Ignore her and give your girls a life time of good memories.
