Giving them what I didn't have.
Writing on my phone so please forgive errors.

My parents split before I turned 1 so I can only remember them disliking eachother. My dad was pretty good with us but usually only as prescribed by their divorce. He would pick us up from school once a week for tea and we'd stay over every other weekend. He was always on time with his child support payments and we would get xmas and birthday presents, usually a holiday too. From quite a young age though, I was aware of the lack of enthusiasm.

Despite fulfilling these obligations what I missed was seeing or talking to him when I needed to. That started to affect me around the age of 8 or 9. I began to refuse to go with him and between 13 and 20 we didn't see or speak to eachother at all.

Anyway, i'm 30 now and just fathered my second child this year. My kids are the most important thing in my life and I try to do something every day to make sure they know it. Often I only get to see them for an hour between coming home from work and them going to bed, but it's the best hour of my whole day (not counting occasional sexy tiem with mrs greencloud!)

So the summary must be that I had a decent dad, but I want my kids to have a great dad.

Will try to post again with some funnehs.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 9:12, Reply)