Tell your children that you love them. Every single day.
If you wake them up in the mornings (they’ll usually wake you!) then wake them with love. Tell them you love them. If you put them to bed, tell them you love them again.
If you can’t be with them, for a day, or longer, phone them. Tell them you love them.
And mean it.
A child can never be loved too much. Never, ever, ever let your child feel, or suggest that she is not loved. They might say it, but that might well be fishing. Encourage it.
What if they disappoint you? That’s fine. You still tell them you love them. Tell them you’re disappointed with their behaviour, but that you love them.
Hold your children often. Never, ever give up on telling your children that you love them. Your children are part of you. They carry half your genes. They are half of you. Rejoice in that. Delight in that. Marvel in the fact that they are utterly unique, utterly perfect, utterly magical and tell them this, often.
There are a million ways of telling your child that you love her. Spend the rest of your life finding all those ways and using them. One day, you will be dead, and they will not. (I pray inshaAllah that it’s never the other way around). When that day comes, your child will be left to spread the love that you filled them with to others. You never know, they might love their children too. As a father, the best thing you can do for the world is to spread love and your primary responsibility is to love the children that you were responsible for creating.
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