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Remembering Dad's top 10 fatherly sayings

As Father's Day arrives, I'm reminded of the many important lessons and values my dad gave me during my childhood. Recently, I was giving my teenage daughter, Anna, some "fatherly" advice. As she rolled her eyes, it suddenly dawned on me that I was simply repeating exactly what my dad said to me!

Of course, a number of my dad's bits of advice and favorite sayings didn't make much sense to me growing up. And some of them still don't make much sense to me today. So as a tribute to my late father on Father's Day, I wanted to share my "Top 10 Dad-isms," in order of my age when I remember hearing them:

► "If you don't stop crying, I'm going to give you something to cry about!" - I actually tried using this "gold nugget" of paternal wisdom myself when my daughter was 5 years old. And I quit using it when she was 5 years old. No kid has ever stopped crying after hearing this line.

► "Son, if you fall out of that tree and break both of your legs, don't you come running to me!" - If I had actually accomplished this particular task, I would have made it into the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum.

► "This is going to hurt me a lot more than it's going to hurt you" - I heard this line just before several lashes of "The Belt" were delivered across my posterior. I am very confident that I deserved it, but could someone explain to me - again - how could it possibly hurt anyone more than me? I never got that one.

► "Money doesn't grow on trees" - One of my dad's favorite sayings was immediately followed by this rhetorical question: "Do I look like Santa Claus to you?" To which I would respond, "Yes," while laughing hysterically. Unfortunately for me, that brought out The Belt - presumably for not understanding the meaning of a rhetorical question.

► "You are barking up the wrong tree!" - This was my dad's response to my plea for an extra 50 cents of spending money, so he obviously thought that there was some money growing on a tree somewhere!

► "No pain, no gain!" - This basi

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