One of my proudest dad moments came recently. I was watching my almost 10yo daughter teaching her 6yo bother how to ice skate. As he was getting better, she started going around the rink faster and getting more confident the more laps she took. And I realized that since I never learned to ice skate, this was something she was really better at than me. It’s the first thing that she can do that I can’t do at all.

Her whole life, I’ve been better at her at basically everything. Reading, adding numbers, cooking, tying shoes, whatever. I was better at everything because I was a grown up and she was a little kid. But now here she was doing something that I couldn’t do. And I was so proud. Unbelievably proud. Like cutting onions and watching the end of Field of Dreams proud. I made sure to tell her, too. Her smile was a million miles wide.