Parenting | Father and Son | Example

“And the child became strong, filled with wisdom” (Luke 2:40).

There’s a wide-eyed little fellow who believes you’re always right.

And his ears are always open and he watches day and night. You are setting an example every day in all you do,

For the little boy is waiting to grow up and be like you.

That is the last stanza of a little poem which inspirational author Og Mandino pasted under a small photo of his son, Matt, right after he was born. Years later, Mandino wrote of what he termed “the terrible agony of helping his son pack his things, standing outside the door with the boy’s mother and waving to him as he drove off to begin his own life in an Arizona State University dormitory.” Mandino said that after his son had gone, he walked down the hall and sat in the dark, in the boy’s room. “I prayed,” he said “that my wife, Bette, and I had provided Matt, and…