There’s nothing quite like a little fatherly advice - whether it’s asked for or not.


They can joke, complain, and tell some awkward truths.


‘Check your tyre pressure’, ‘remember your helmet’, and ‘don’t spend it all at once’ are some classic guidance from our beloved dads, and who can forget the legendary ‘I don’t know, ask your mother’.


We asked News Shopper readers to tell us the best advice they ever received from their dads and found some spot-on responses.


Here is what they had to say -


Leah Foley said: “To put the wood in the hole – we wasn’t born in a barn.”


Leanne Martins said: “Don’t get married.”


Joelle Gilbert said: “Brake, brake – he said on my first driving lesson when he took me on a dark unlit country road after saying ‘gie it welly, gie it welly’ meaning go faster.
“He got very excited when I asked where the brake is.”


Gordon Chilvers said: “Good manners will never make anyone your enemy.”


Hanna Settle said: “One man’s rubbish, is another man’s treasure.”


Soph Eliza said: “Never trust a man who doesn’t like football.”


Sharman Holmes said: “Be nice to people on the way up the ladder – you might meet them coming down.”


Patricia Sillet: “You have a back bone, use it and don’t depend on anyone.”


Billy Cook: “Always shake hands and always make eye contact.”


Linda Hewitt said: “You’ve only got one life – be happy through the good and the bad times and together, as a family, you will get through it.”


Linda Stevens said: “Never settle for second best – regarding when in a relationship.
“I’ve never forgotten those wise words – I miss him so much.”


Lauren Cross said: “Do what makes you happy.”


Del Evans: “Put others needs in front of your own and treat them how you would like to be treated even if they are an a**hole.”


Susan Marriott said: “Live life as if you only have six months left and you won’t waste a day.”


Gina Thomas said: “Cars are only reliable if you look after them.”


Madeline Stock said: “Be like me, crafty as a fox, and keep your tobacco in your own tobacco box.”


Steve Maxworthy said: “Reach for the stars, you might not make it, but you may reach the moon.”


Peter Lewis said: “You can always bend down and pick up nothing.”


Debs Reynolds said: “If it doesn’t feel right, don’t do it.”


Adam Thomas Arnesen-Ives said: “Silence is often the best answer to a question you do not want to answer.”

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