I may be a female empowerment speaker, and a passionate #momboss who is an activist for all things womanhood. But one thing I’m not, is someone who will ever discount the importance of fatherhood.

And with Father’s Day on the horizon, I started thinking.

As a girl who grew up with a strained father-daughter relationship, I know from experience how critical the role of a father is in a child’s life. I know what it means because of how my daughter’s face lights up each time her father walks through the door or calls her on the phone.

I know it, too, because of all the men I know who take their role as Dad very, very seriously.

So, we’ve celebrated Mother’s Day. We’ve given Mom the time off she so craved, the massage she so desperately earned and the sweet cards to brighten her day.

Of course, I enjoyed every minute of it, thank you very much.

And in just a few days, it’ll be time to recognize the men in our lives who so deserve the same love and attention – but what are you to do when another tie or photo of the family just doesn’t seem like enough?

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