My Husband Voted as a Model Father

A good father who inspired his own children, translated…

A few weeks ago, the secretary of our borough called, wanted my husband to receive the recognition of being a model father at the county government’s ceremonies, I’d immediately given him a great big hug.

the ceremonies for model fathers in Kaohsiung, Taiwan…not my photo.

At the end of May, the man in charge of our borough had, recommended my husband as the model father of the year, and, although my husband told him that there are better candidates, but the man in charge of the borough made his mind up, and he just couldn’t, get out of it.  Actually, my husband lived up to the title of a model father, because he teaches at the school, and, other than the academia, he’d focused more on the education in the family; he believed, that our children’s mental wellbeing and their characters are, directly related to how they were raised in the family.

We have three daughters, and, I’d admired how he interacted with them like a teacher, and a friend too, when the children were younger and did something wrong, he’d enticed them toward the right ways of behaving, instead of scolding or disciplining, and would often use bedtime stories to coax our children into behaving right; after the kids went up to middle school, as they were blaming themselves for not making high enough grades, he’d often told them, to NOT just care about their academic standings and their grades, but to ask themselves, how much did they learn.

these, are the fathers who were voted as role models…not my photo still.

He’d treated our kids with respect, hoped that they can decide for themselves, so they’d set their own developmental goals in life.  and because of this, our three daughters were able to choose their own separate areas of expertise—our eldest went to Germany, to work on her doctorate and afterward, started as an assistant professor at a university, after our second daughter received her masters from Taiwan Teacher’s University, she’d become a public office worker, our youngest was interested in the finances, received her master’s in economics in the Empire University in England, she’s currently working at a financial corporation.  They were all very grateful toward how their dad had, respected their choices in life.

“The achievements of the young, is my achievement!”, that, was the most widely used words that my husband, who worked as a school principal for multiple years told our friends and relatives, he’d not felt proud of his accomplishments, but, I am, so proud of him.

So, this man set a good example for his own children, allowed his own three kids to live their own lives freely, and, it’s because of this man’s openness toward his own children’s developments, that, was why his three children are all very, outstanding.