When Jesus visits your home, He'll ask for you, dads.
Find A Place For Them To Run
Even if they haven’t been stuck in a car for a long time (but especially if they have) kids love to run. Find places that are big and open and a little contained. Kids give extra points if there are some limitations in the terrain so they have to figure ways around objects. Anything maze like will do.
Big parks or big rocks are good ideas.
This would be reason number 17 why we like Artist Point in Grand Marais
1. If you want a touch of the north shore before actually getting there, try Jay Cooke State Park
2. There’s a lot of cool wooden platforms and nice views on the Shovel Point hike at Tettegouche State Park.
3. If one day it’s misty and cool jacket weather on Artist Point in Grand Marais . . .
. . . come back the next day and it might be warm enough to make you want wade.
4. If you leave a sink full of dishwater over night, you might go searching in the water the next morning for a fork and come up with a . . .
Yes, that's a mouse.
And just so I don’t leave you with that image in your mind. Here’s one more from Artist Point
. . . being a very special Tuesday Tip, where you can choose your favorite of two contradictory suggestions –
1. When planning a vacation, make sure you tell your kids a week or so in advance, so they can experience more joy, get mentally prepared and be excited.
2. When planning a vacation, make sure you don’t tell your kids a week or so in advance, or they will dwell only on that and be largely dysfunctional until vacation happens.
Which one do you choose?
Dads, don’t call your wife ‘the wife’.
Dad, if you are a mouse, give your wife this crucial tip: A good place to build a nest for your babies is not a human’s grill*.
* No mice were injured in the development of this tip, but the whiskers of the Mom were a bit scorched.
I’ve heard people eschew this map as being too America-centric.
But I disagree. After all people in the United States live in America. But my main reason is – it is because of growing up with maps like this . . .
. . . that, even as an adult, when someone talks about flying to Japan, I picture them flying east.
Dads, do not dress your kids or yourself in a shirt that does not tuck in.
(But she says she got it from some other source)
Dads, you can’t expect what you aren’t going to inspect.
Dads, if your wife and your mom agree on something, go with it.
Saturday I took all of the kids on an hour and a half 6 stop errand run (so that Debbie could have some time alone doing whatever she wanted) and our last stop was at a park parking lot, where I asked the kids to tell me some words that they associated with their Mom.
That evening then I went over to Wordle and created this:
And then I printed it out and framed it. It’s all true.
I recommend this for your next present opportunity.
I wish I could say it was my idea, but it is in fact an idea borrowed from the Fathers Day gift that Debbie game me 11 months ago.
Responsible Father 
