Tip 46: Remembering mother's day and all other Dates?

I don't know if dads are generally bad with dates or just me. Fortunately, May 11 is not too difficult to remember since the media is ever so persistent in telling you about this important date. I do not watch TV so much these days, but even when I am out for lunch, you can see banners telling you that Mother's Day is arriving. But, the other problem we daddies face, besides memory loss on important dates, is the need to act before the nick of time. That is, to get that gift you had been thinking of, make that restaurant reservation, buy the ingredients for that meal you had plan on cooking. Well, I guess mummy too would complain that they have to do all this yet, never fail to impress us. So, maybe its time for daddies to buck up. Before more dates enter the picture when we have more kids and more appointments to attend to. We surely can do it by getting organized with dates sooner.

I am somehow very bad with dates. Is it because I am not thoughtful enough? Sigh. Well, now I am zooming into a smaller scope of just my family. I do not have too many solutions to offer on remembering dates - except the realization that dates matter. Maybe putting it on the diary at the beginning of the year by spending 4 minutes to think of all dates that we need to remember. Then, entering these dates into our outlook for meeting reminders with a 1 week reminder period. Hey, we are going somewhere as I just thought of this while blogging. Lets see if it works. If any of you daddies out there, have good tips to remember dates, do share. And if there is any inspiration or motivation to remember dates, I just found this blog ring entitled "Does your dad forget your birthday and pisses you off". Lets hope our children join a blogring someday that says instead - Do you have the best dad in the world? Wow, global competition is not only seeping into every industry and workplace but also in the realm of being a good daddy. Its be competitive before its too late call for all of us.