Father’s Day? You must be kidding

Wake up. Today is Father’s Day. But before you buy your dad a designer pen or a pricey jersey, just think.    

Wouldn’t it be better to ask your dad to spend quality time with you— if you are an eight-year-old, a teen, or even slightly bigger—and get a reciprocal gift instead. So why not ask: ‘Hey
Dad, please give me some quality seconds this year.’

Perhaps it’s not a bad idea to watch Tim Burton’s Big Fish with your dad today. Here’s what ‘Big Fish’ Dad says: “Havin’ a kid changes everything. There’s burping, the midnight feeding, and the changing… Then you spend years trying to corrupt and mislead this child, fill his head with nonsense, and still it turns out perfectly fine.”

So, if you decide that dads don’t deserve costly nibs, they surely deserve a hug for their SMS sympathy: checking out every now and then if all’s well at home. That, of course, brings us to the ethic of celebrating F-Day the way we all do. After all, there’s M-Day, V-Day, C-Day, I-Day, R-Day, S-Day, T-Day… And, soon, marketing mavens would grab every day from your and my year. But why let them run away with your and my time?