Guide Note

Father's Day MySpace comments are a great way to show dad how much you care. Comments come in a variety of glitter graphics, animated graphics, funny pictures and many others.

Fast Facts

1. Date for 2008: June 15, 2008
2. Usual date: Third Sunday of June
3. There are 64.3 million fathers in the U.S.
4. 159,000 Stay at home dads
5. The idea of Father's Day came from Sonora Smart Dodd as she was listening to a Mother's Day sermon

On July 5, 1908, the first celebration of Father's Day was held in West Virginia. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge officiall instituted the first and hence forth annual Father's Day.

• "Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad." -Anne Geddes

• "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -English Proverb

• "It is a wise father that knows his own child." -William Shakespeare

• "If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. -Bill Cosby

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