How to Make Your Dad Happy this Father’s Day

“Hi there, everybody. This is Paul Crispr from the Happiness Experts Company. One of the questions I got asked was, ‘how to make your dad happy on Father’s Day?’ Well, I’m a dad, and I have some sense of this. Of course, you know, make them a yummy breakfast and give them some little gift, you know, a new pair of socks or whatever. Those things aren’t a bad idea, but if you want to appeal to cut about a basic male nature, do something that’s side by side.”

“That’s how men are kind of programmed to hang out with other men and how we generally enjoy the world. Whenever you see men spending time together, you’ll almost always find them side by side, looking out together at whatever it is they’re doing. There are some good natural reasons for this. That may have been how they surveyed prey, how men would have looked at conquests in prehistoric times. We also would have been surveying terrain and looking at how we were gonna hunt together. We would have accomplished things side by side.”

“Even now, if you look in the modern context, there are good sociological reasons why men do that. It’s about building a strong, which is the hormone of aggression. So when we’re side-by-side, looking together at something, it’s non-confrontational. It’s not aggressive, and it lets us be in the context of doing things. Men love to do stuff, and when you see men get together, they’re usually watching or playing sports, or they’re taking on some kind of do-it-yourself project together. Men love that stuff, side by side, endeavoring to do something, to accomplish something in the world.”

“So on Father’s Day, do something with your dad that puts you in that context, side by side, taking on an activity, having fun. You’ll find at the end of that activity, if it’s really happy, you may find yourself in the more kind of sensitive posture of face to face. That’s where we tend to be a bit more emotional, a bit more relational. If you’ve had fun together, it might be really easy to get into that setting afterwards.”

“So, hopefully, that’s helpful to you. Hopefully, all you men out there that are fathers are having a great Father’s Day. Bye for now.”