Hugh W. Pinnock Quotes on Fathers (1 Quote)

One day when I was seventeen years old, I was washing the family car in anticipation of going on a date that evening. My father came out of the house to observe what I was doing. He criticized me to the extent that I felt as if I was doing nothing right. Finally I said something like, 'Dad, get off my case. Dont you understand this is the first time I have ever been a teenager' He looked at me and said, 'Pal, dont you know this is the first time I have ever been a father' I grew wiser that day because I realized we all are learning together within a family. We cannot expect our parents to be perfect any more than we can expect ourselves to be all that we hoped to be.