My dad is the person I adore the most in the whole wide world. I don’t feel shy to say I am daddy’s girl till now. He has taken care of my brother and me like no father on earth would. He was both our father and mother. Being a mother of a 13year and 2.5-year-old, I feel parenting is quite tough. At this juncture, I just cannot imagine how this man played dual roles not only for my brother and myself but also for my mother.

Who said a man cannot parent well? I am a standard example of a child raised solely raised by a man, my father. He never compromised on anything in my lifestyle till now, he always to extra effort to compensate for my mom’s place.

Still, remember how :

He used to pack my trunk for school

Sit in his free time every day and cover all my books to be taken to boarding

He shopped for me

Cook my favorite dishes

He knew what I needed before I even asked him verbally

He gave me so much love and affection

Since both my brother and I loved pets, he helped us raise a lot of pets besides his work, we had dogs, white rats, rabbits, a parrot once, cats, and fish.

He never compromised with us. He taught me to cycling.

He was the one who taught me swimming and in the summer holidays, he spent almost one hour every day to be with us during swimming. I still remember I was not an easy student, I used to fuss and cry. sometimes I wonder how he put up with me then.

He loved and accepted my mother for what she was

He always put us before all his own interests

He was a symbol of sacrifice

He Rocked me to sleep

Visited me on every visiting weekend when I was in boarding

He was very strict in a lot of ways, I am glad he was because I am what I am because of him.

For managing our house single-handedly till date

For working so hard so that we could have a comfortable future

Almost every day I spend so much time talking to him on phone and these phone calls have given me a lot of guidance and strength…

Only One who treats this 39-year-old as a 5-year-old.

And the list goes on and on

Other than giving birth rightfully in every other way He is my mother till date.

A salute to all the men out there who played the role of a mother.