Father's Day gifts from a distance

Father’s Day gifts from a distance

Father’s Day is just around the corner. If you live in another country, you’re already used to finding other solutions than simply visiting. Get creative with some Father’s Day gifts from a distance!

Need ideas for Father’s Day gifts?

Call him!
Give him a phone call in the morning, wishing him “Happy Father’s Day”. It’s a classical choice, but they can’t wait to hear our voice on special days, or any day, for that matter. Do it in the morning, it will put the whole day into a new perspective. Use your KeepCalling app, we bet your dad is on Speed Dial. No matter how you use the service, there are no hidden fees, and the quality is great. Talk as much as you want, don’t worry about a thing.
Send an E-card
Choose an e-card that will fit your dad’s personality, and send it to him. You’ll find plenty of possibilities to choose from, and you can even find some that you can personalize and paste your dad’s face on them. Come on, it will be fun, and he’ll have some laughs after all this grey period we’ve all been through.
Send him a book
Just that he won’t find it in his mailbox, but in his email Inbox. We mean an e-book, of course, as we’re clearly going digital this year. Again, there will be plenty of options, maybe even more than in the printed category.
Make a music playlist
Remember how your dad always wanted to educate your musical tastes? Well, you can either make a list of some tracks you know he’d love, from the golden years. Or you can make some modern suggestions, to switch places and let him know “what’s in” these days.
Take him on a video tour
Take your phone or video cam and go on a tour in the city where you live, recording everything, and talking to your dad like he was there with you. This video message will get right to his heart and could be one of the most authentic Father’s Day gifts he received.

What we don’t know about fathers

Our fathers are such important figures in our lives, and so much of this is really out of our choice or control. We cannot choose our parents, but we can love them as they are and try to give back a little of what they gave to us. Also, here are 3 interesting facts about fathers, that you may not have known.

Did you know that…

A study done at the University of North Carolina found that in terms of genetic makeup, mammals are more like their fathers than their mothers. Even though we get the same amount of genetic mutations from our parents, we actually use more of the DNA we get from our dads.
A recent study found that dads’ voices tend to stay steady when they’re talking to their children, and they pretty much talk to their kids like they talk to adults. But as speech scientist and the study’s co-author Mark VanDam pointed out, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, in doing so, dads are actually giving their young kids a sort of “conversational bridge” to the outside world.
Researchers from the Freie Universitat in Berlin found that male nightingales prove their family values through song. It was found that the better the singing, the more supportive and protective the male would be towards their family.