I wonder what could be your basis in assessing what a good father entails. Is it the amount of money he earns and bestows on his wife and kids? Maybe, yes, but then maybe, no. For a father must provide for what his family needs, but in doing so, must he neglect to spend quality time with them. Will his children understand why he was always not available to them even on the most important occasions of their life? Do not be deceived. Do not be misled. For how many fathers have this wrong notion that they think they are excused from spending time for their children just because they are bringing the bucks. “I am doing this for them, for their future”, they reasoned out.
Think again, for you might have to change your priorities. Many fathers have spent all their lives working for a living, doing everything for their career, sacrificing their family life for the sake of monetary gains. They do not realized that when they finally leave this earth, their job that they so much loved can easily be given to others in just a twinkle of an eye, and they, would soon be forgotten by the company they had put their whole life into. But their families will feel and grieved for their loss for the remaining days of their lives, and with a sigh in their hearts for they had really not known their father.
So if you ask me, what a good father really is-he is one who can balance both his family and career life, and if he had to choose only one, he will choose his family without batting an eyelash even at the expense of losing his career. For he knows, you can always find a new career, but your family is simply irreplaceable.
