The Dad’s Test

My son was traumatized by a break-in while we slept the day before that he could not go to sleep the next night. Tried as we may, he kept waking up thinking that the hoodlums were back. So I assured him I would stay awake all night to ensure that they never came back. Every time he woke up in the middle of the night he would see me watching over him. After a few days of returning to his usual sound sleep, he had a compliment for me: “Dad you are strong, brave and selfless”.
I thought about this quickly and replied: “Well, you see if you can’t carry out this task, you don’t get to be Dad. That’s the Dad’s test”.
“You mean if you fail at it, you get to be Mum?” he asked innocently.
That chuckle or outright mirth you hear is from all Dads including yours sincerely for saving a break point from “The Mum’s test”.