Advertisement: celebrating fatherhood! Part 2

[sheherazade]

^My clan's bigger than hers, I bet ya . They'll be there, inshallah.

[Valenteenah.]

^ No but yeah but no but yeah..my clan would be bigger than yours except it's rather difficult to get them away from the marfish.

 

Originally posted by Che-Guevara:

^^^Entire clan maa soo ka xaynee

Haahey. Plus some friends and spare tickets for tagalongs. :cool:

[Che -Guevara]

Sheh....It is not about the size

 

Val....The "Marfish walalaa" usheeg there will something to chew at the event, and this might turn into intervention.

[N.O.R.F]

I half-heartedly agree that we are far better fathers than our fathers were

Now thats a discussion. Theres a whole host of areas to discuss. Anyone to kick-off? (me go take toddler to park ).

[Castro]

Originally posted by sheherazade:

I'll be there- where there's a story, there's Sheherazade.

Can't wait. It's for and by Somalis and it's for all ages. My dad's going, LoL. Grab yours too.

For and by Somalis?

 

Other than Northerner, who else here takes their kid(s) to the park? LSK? Ngonge?

[N.O.R.F]

The Environment

 

Somalia was the place where most parents of those who are 20+ today, grew up. Some of those who are 20+ today were raised in Somalia others were raised in the Arab lands. Most of us (over 20) were lucky enough to be raised in a Muslim country (Somalia or Arabia) for a limited time (at least). I think this (modesty/cultural awareness) has helped (in most cases) the transition from ‘home’ to a newer more alien environment. Where parents may have gone wrong is where they have adopted what I call the ‘system attitude'. This is where the parents feel comfortable (too comfortable) with the system of the state. The kids are going to school and learning something so there is no need to worry about them. As long as he/she/they are getting up in the morning and returning home on time then there is no need to worry. They are Muslims afterall, they know right from wrong and will not be tempted by anything!

 

Some parents mistakingly think that their experiences growing up in Somalia will be replicated by their kids and thus do no worry so much. They do not realise the amount negativity (in all forms) experienced by kids in the west today. The drugs available at school were not available in Sheikh in the 60s and 70s!

 

Conclusion

 

Those who have grown up in the west (or at least lived there for a while) are in a better position in terms of bringing up their kids as they have actually experienced it first hand.

[sheherazade]

OMG, this is amazing, truly.

 

Strongest Dad in the World

( video at end )

 

[From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly]

 

 

I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to

pay for their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.

 

But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.

 

Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles

in marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a

wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming

and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the

same day.

 

Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back

mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike.

Makestaking your son bowling look a little lame, right?

 

And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his

life. This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when

Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him

brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.

 

``He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors

told him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old.

``Put him in an institution.''

 

But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes

followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to

the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was

anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was

told. ``There's nothing going on in his brain.''

 

Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns

out a lot was going on in his brain.

 

Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor

by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able

to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high

school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a

charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want to do that.''

 

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never

ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles?

Still, he tried. ``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I

was sore for two weeks.''

 

That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were

running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''

 

And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with

giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such

hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.

 

``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't

quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair

competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined

 

the massive field and ran anyway,

then they found a way to get into the race officially: In 1983

they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston

the following year.

 

Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?''

 

How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike

since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon?

Still, Dick tried.

 

Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour

Ironmans in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud

getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't

you think?

 

Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No way,'' he

says. Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets

seeing Rick with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.

 

This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th

Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000

starters. Their best time'? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the

world record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things,

happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a

wheelchair at the time.

 

 

``No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the Father of

the Century.''

 

And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he

had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of

his arteries was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great

shape,'' one doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years ago.''

 

So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.

 

Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in

Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland,

Mass., always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the

country and compete in some backbreaking race every > weekend, including this

Father's Day.

 

That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really

wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.

 

``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in

the chair and I push him once.''

 

source

[Azmaya]

A much needed seminar, the fadhi ku dirir show? Don’t chew on it. Fatherhood demands manhood, and raagnimo is found in 10 out of 100, too kind on my part yeah . ninmanka somaliiiyed badana wa doqano, bal anigu waxaan la yaabey nagahan aroosaya nacaso. Uff. :rolleyes:

[Che -Guevara]

^^^loool...waad isma mahadisay

[Faheema.]

Originally posted by Azmaya:

bal anigu waxaan la yaabey nagahan aroosaya nacaso. Uff. :rolleyes:

LoL, Doqoniimo daa, kol hadii nin la aroosay, maxaa kaloo u hadhay.

[Baashi]

Originally posted by Azmaya:

A much needed seminar, the fadhi ku dirir show? Don’t chew on it. Fatherhood demands manhood, and raagnimo is found in 10 out of 100, too kind on my part yeah

. ninmanka somaliiiyed badana wa doqano, bal anigu waxaan la yaabey nagahan aroosaya nacaso. Uff. :rolleyes:

Outch!

[sheherazade]

^Bloke-Baashing and that's the best you can do?

 

Don't tell me you buy the 10 out of 100 stat.?

[Urban]

that was a touching story sheh, thanks for posting..

[Baashi]

^I agree that was a touching story.

 

@ Baashing. Creative eh.

 

Shez, can't argue with Azmaya. What if she really knows what she is talking about and literally has dated with 100 Somali men and found that only 10 can make the cut as far as fatherhood is concerned huh?

 

Sheeko xariiro ma laga akhriyay meesha? Can you guys share sheeko xariirooyinka with oldies...I kinda run out of ammunition.

 

Juxa, does any1 have this in Somali version? If you do plz share how I can get hold of it.

 

Off to fadhi-ku-dirir where big men sip tea...and pass few minutes on matters of larger concern

[sheherazade]

Shez, can't argue with Azmaya. What if she really knows what she is talking about and literally has dated with 100 Somali men and found that only 10 can make the cut as far as fatherhood is concerned huh?

 

Even if she did go through a hundred, how could she predict something they still were not? Predictive failure!