Candice Bergen | 06/14/2009 11:00 pm

Candice Bergen's 'No Brainer' Father's Day Gift Idea

In response to: What is the perfect Father's Day gift?

Easy-peasy. Anything made by his offspring expressing love, devotion, admiration, thanks. A poem, a drawing … or breakfast in bed made by a son or daughter. No brainer.

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Candice, your father was gift to us all. I have many happy memories watching him from my fathers lap.

You were blessed.

By Deniseann Taylor on 06/15/2009 3:54 am

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The best Father’s Day gift my husband ever received or ever will was the first day he held each in his arms. He’s always been a wonderful dad to his sons. I bless the day they were born and so does he.

By Murphy Mac on 06/15/2009 5:28 am

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One can scarcely overestimate the influence that mothershave upon their sons, but fathers are just beginning to be properly weighed-inas determinative factors in the lives of their daughters.

My memory is selective and I recall clearly those momentswhen my father rose to the occasion and parted another Red Sea of Impossibilityand elbowed me across.

Those moments really did happen and I am not the samebecause of them.

That was my father’s gift to me.

By ina pinkney on 06/15/2009 7:51 am

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I absolutely agree with Candice, my Dad will be 80 next month & the walls of his house are to this day, covered with pictures my sons have drawn for him over the years or knick knacks my sister and I have made him. His prized picture is the very first one my now 13 year old made him when he was in kindergarten, it is a picture of a pencil , and underneath is carefully printed. "Dear Granpa, I am now 16 pencils tall, I love you, from Robbie" …..Dads & Granpas’ are the best!. =)

By Ali Bell on 06/15/2009 8:29 am

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The best gift for everyone who has so much that you don’t know what to give them is the opportunity to make one or more microloans to people less fortunate than they are. Go to

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=gift&action=home

and buy one or more gift certificates. The father in your life can make microloans and, when the loans have been repaid, he can cash in his chips or make another round of loans.
I now give these gifts whenever I need to show my appreciation to someone and these gifts are greeted with much excitement and are universally appreciated.

By Sam Mirando on 06/15/2009 9:04 am

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Somehow that link takes you back to WOW (what happened, guys?). Try this one

http://www.kiva.org/app.php?page=gift&action=home

By Sam Mirando on 06/15/2009 9:06 am

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With fathers day and graduation parties approaching I found a coupon for a cool gift. Its called a TickleMe Plant and it is a real plant that you grow that will close its leaves and lower its branches when tickled. My students love it and 99% of the people that I give TickleMe Plants to have never had their own house plant that moves when tickled. You can get a TickleMe Plant Greenhouse to grow your own at http://www.ticklemeplant.com and use the coupon code Holiday to get two dollars off.

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By Jenny Carres on 06/15/2009 11:45 am