During "growing up" it was sadly not as good as it should have been, thanks to me me / my mother.
He was working like a normal person, but my mother was always fearmongering me against my "strict father", so that she would stay my "favorite parent", and I didn't grow too close to him. She did everything she could do to manipulate me (and my brother too), so I would say that I like her more than my father.
It wasn't until I grew up and hit beyond 20 years old, to realize that she was emotionally abusing me all that time (while she was also alcoholic).
These days I regulary meet and talk with my father, and avoid my mother as good as I can. She is simply a narcistic PoS.
Planning is the process of replacing chance with error.