Growing Up With Dad

At...

• Four years old
  My daddy can do anything.
• Five years old
  My daddy knows a whole lot.
• Six years old
  My dad is smarter than your dad.
• Eight years old
  My dad doesn’t know exactly everything.
• Ten years old
  In the olden days, when my dad grew up, things were sure different.
• Twelve years old
  Oh, well, naturally, Dad doesn’t know anything about that. He is too old to remember his childhood.
• Fourteen years old
  Don’t pay any attention to my dad. He is so old-fashioned.
• Twenty-one years old
  Him? My Lord, he’s hopelessly out of date.
• Twenty-five years old
  Dad knows about it, but then he should, because he has been around so long.
• Thirty years old
  Maybe we should ask Dad what he thinks. After all, he’s had a lot of experience.
• Thirty-five years old
  I’m not doing a single thing until I talk to Dad.
• Forty years old
  I wonder how Dad would have handled it. He was so wise.
• Fifty years old
  I’d give anything if Dad were here now so I could talk this over with him. Too bad I didn’t appreciate how smart he was. I could have learned a lot from him.