Below
is an open letter from one of the dads who attended last year.
Men,
When
I attended the father/daughter conference in the fall of 2013, I needed help.
On the heels of several years of what felt like non-stop challenges facing my family,
my relationship with my daughter had suffered greatly. To be honest, I had no
clue to what extent it had suffered. But it did.
So
when my wife approached me about attending this event, I was more than ready
and quite frankly desperate for an opportunity to not only spend more
intentional time with my daughter, but time spent in really getting to know my
daughter.
Boy,
I am sure glad I did. I thought I knew my daughter, but there was so much more
to learn. And since then, as I have tried to apply all that I learned from that
conference, my relationship with my daughter has blossomed into something so
much more far reaching than I could have ever imagined.
My
daughter and I are both excited to attend this year's event. Building off of
what we both learned about each other last year, we can't wait to see how far
our relationship grows this next year.
No
matter what state your relationship is in with your daughter or even how old
your daughter is, it is NEVER too late to spend time together working on it.
Thanks to Rick and Better Dads, it has provided me with the tools and
inspiration to keep working on it.
As a
brother and fellow dad, I want to not only just invite you to attend this
upcoming conference, I urge you too, as well. For me, not only did my daughter
thank me for it... guess what? My wife did too.
Please
join us.
Gunnar
Simonsen
Husband
and Dad
