Fathers -- they are either the guy who has everything, or the guy who wants for nothing. Which is pretty much the same thing when you are trying to think of how to spend a special Father's Day. Every year we wrack our brains to come up with new and creative ideas and every year it gets harder and harder. So, Bibi rounded up a few creative people and asked them how they’ve managed to make Dad's Day a meaningful experience.

 

On Father’s Day, I close my restaurant and invite children form different organizations and serve them a full, sit down meal. It’s very emotional. The children come from various shelters, like NY Foundling, NCNNY-- a church which shelters children abandoned by their parents and other organizations. This is my fifth Father’s Day doing this. At first, I would send a catered meal, but no one would know where the food came from. So I told the charities that I would be honored if the children could come to my restaurant. I seat them in shifts, 100 children at a time, and I make sure to ask if there are any food preferences or allergies I should be aware of. Every single year, it’s been the most important thing to me to give hope. We live in NYC where we can chose to be anyone, and I try to give these children hope in themselves. --Vikas Khanna, Celebrity Chef of Purnima, NYC    

 

 

My sisters and I made our dad a scrapbook of pictures from our childhood. Each page had a different theme to it. The book started with our baby pictures and continued into present time. My father enjoyed the book so much. We also included a personal page from each of us girls to my dad. After he opened his scrapbook, we all sat around him and looked at the book with him and we each took a turn reading our pages aloud. My dad cried his heart out with happiness, which made us all cry together. My dad could not stop telling us what a wonderful and thoughtful gift we had given him! It was perfect!  --Kiran Panjwani, Miss Texas American Beauty Pageant Winner 2007