A Developmental View of Fatherhood (用发展的眼光看父亲):

My Father (author unknown) 

When I was:

4 years old: My daddy can do anything.

5 years old: My daddy knows a whole lot.

6 years old: My dad is smarter than your dad.

8 years old: My dad doesn’t know exactly everything.

10 years old: In the olden days when my dad grew up, things were sure different.

12 years old: On, well, naturally Dad doesn’t know anything about that. He is too old to remember his childhood.

14 years old: Don’t pay any attention to my dad. He is so old-fashioned!

21 years old: Him? My Lord, he’s hopelessly out-of-date.

25 years old: Dad knows a little bit about it, but then he should, because he has been around so long.

30 years old: Maybe we should ask Dad what he thinks. After all, he’s had a lot of experience.

35 years old: I’m not doing a single thing until I talk to Dad.

40 years old: I wonder how Dad would have handled it. He was so wise and had a world of experience.

50 years old: I’d give anything if Dad were here now so I could talk this over with him. Too bad I didn’t appreciate how smart he was. I could have learned a lot from him.

Source: Annie’s Mailbox (Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar: 6-19-2011/A Poem for Dad for His Special Day)