Posted by Jack Hanlon, CBO & Evangelist
In honor of the coming Father's Day, we asked our newest dad, CTO Andy Warzon how he was preparing to involve books in the raising of the newest member of the Warzon clan.
Our baby room, weeks before my wife is due, is full of books already... old ones, new ones, little infant books, grade-school level educational books... we'll never be short of reading material. I can't wait to show our baby all the great books I read as kid, the ones that informed and excited me about the world, and the ones that stretched my imagination. [ed. note: Andy's wife just had the baby! Congrats!]
The dad with the most experience (having raised his own children as well as Kreece, Xavier and Jeff when the company started), CEO David Murphy weighed in at the NCFL blog with the following:
Father’s Day is Sunday, and each year around this time I tend to
look back to when my children were young. As the father of three
fantastic children, I so clearly and vividly recall many moments curled
up with my children reading to them, at all times of day and night…on
the kitchen floor, in their forts, on old sofas and beat up bean bags,
in bed and in the car.
Few moments in life can compare to the wonders of opening up the new
world of language and communication and wonder and awe to your child.
From those first moments of seeing and understanding new words, to now
their collective love for ‘devouring a book’ — they possess the tools
they need to be independent and to help them discover who they are and
what they are destined to become in this world.
So, Happy Father's Day all. I took the time to send my own father "The Economics of Happiness" and "Go Green, Live Rich" to help his quest (to change his own life from NYC finance type to NYC finance type with a smaller carbon footprint). One of the most important things he taught me was to educate myself to do the things I wanted to do, so I'm hoping I can help him do the same or at least convey that his message to me stuck.