What would you tell your younger self about being a dad? For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.

Recently, online magazine Father Lee sent out that question to its readers, and the answers that came in are worth sharing.

It only gets better, wrote one 39-year-old from Vancouver. I wasn't ready for my prior life to end until I helped my baby on the first day.

There's a place for having fun while you're young, but don't think

that's meant to be it. Life really starts to get good when you feel your children enjoying

your presence and loving every minute they spend with you. Another dad agreed, once you're

knee-deep in the reality of raising a baby, all the seemingly boring milestones feel incredible.

One of the nation's 73 million children, one and four, lived without a biological

step or adoptive father in the home, according to the National Fatherhood Initiative. That

absence felt in every measurable category of well-being, and it's a tragedy for men, too,

for what they miss out on. Our culture tells us that caring for others is a burden on our true

happiness. Scripture and the wisdom of experience tells a different story.

Just ask the dads.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.