All in Family
Ah Father's Day, the one day of the year that we are celebrated for all the things we do for our kids and family. Well, I guess that's not totally true because every day is Father's Day in my house. There's nothing better than being a dad. I have two wonderful kids and a beautiful wife that keeps the family running. She's the CEO, while I play the CFO role.
I find it kind of funny that we celebrate dads (and moms for that matter) only one day out of the year. Parenting is not a cake walk. It's a lifetime of challenges. And while my kids are only 7 and 4, I'm only really starting my journey as a dad. As my mom says, "the bigger [kids] get, the bigger problems they have."
When I was a teenager, my brother and I bought our father a Boston Bruins clock that has a Bobby Orr player card laminated on it. It has a little shelf to put other things on it as well. In fact, I think there's a Bruins shot glass that rests on the shelf.
Since he's had the clock, my father has yet to put a battery in it. When he opened up the gift and realized what it was, he turned to us and said, "I'm not putting a battery in the clock until they win the cup."
That, as I mentioned, was 20+ years ago. Every year we talk about the Bruins and my father always says, "This could be the year I put in the battery."
My oldest daugher loves school. She comes home every day very excited to share what she's learned that day. No matter the subject, she's very "in to" school. Over the past few months, I've been telling her about a project I've been working on with a client of mine called TruGreen, a leader in the lawncare business.
TruGreen is based in Memphis, TN and they have a relationship with a non-profit called Memphis Botanic Garden, which serves more than 43,000 school-aged children annually through organized education programs, offering them the opportunity to get outdoors and learn through hands-on activities and nature play.
Over the years, Memphis Botanic Garden has developed a curriculum that teaches kids about botany. They even created a couple of characters that bring the curriculum to life.
With the help of my client TruGreen, today the two organizations launched a very cool site called My Botanic Planet: