Head on over to Letters to a Parent for our first submission from a father--in fact, fittingly, it's by my own dad. His piece on parenting/raising trees ("a gentle word of counsel to you who would raise trees") is spot-on, inspiring, and, I think, very Robert Frostish. I think you'll love it.
{And thanks, Dad, for sharing it with me & allowing me to share it with others. Now if I can just figure out if I am the oak, the willow, or the maple...}