That's the nature of growing up. I've taken many opportunities to reflect on those lessons and to share them with you on the show when the circumstances warrant it, and I've been very glad to do so. He was taking the opportunity of the service to have us all reflect on our relationship with our folks, particularly our dads, and to talk as sons and daughters of dads, and also as dads of sons and daughters. Now, this isn't an imperative. It was simply a statement of fact.
Dads do teach their children, whether for good or for ill.
Dads who are attentive, kind, virtuous teach their children. Dads who are inattentive, cruel, insensitive teach their children, too. It's a simple fact of life. Like father, like son. Kids inevitably become a chip off the old block in many ways.