Chad and Ethan from NBC’s “Passions” comes to mind.

No. I wasn’t exactly thrilled. But as the years have ticked by since witnessing my son’s birth and holding him in my arms, I find myself enjoying fatherhood more each day.

I think the rapper Bushwick Bill put it best – “once you give life, life is bigger than yours.”

I recently had this same conversation with another dad, Bruce Michael Reese Farmer.

Farmer is a DJ for Foxy 107.1 FM and being “daddy” is his most important job – one he wouldn’t trade for anything.

As a dad, he values his close relationship with 14-year-old daughter, Lauren.

In honor of fatherly duties, in recent years Farmer has put together a father/daughter dance during Father’s Day weekend.

He calls the concept a “God idea” because it came from nowhere.

“Once I did it, I started hearing about other father-daughter dances like one in Atlanta by another DJ and another in Raleigh,” he said.

Not about dancing but bonding, the fourth annual “Dance with my Father” event will be this Father’s Day weekend in NCCU’s Alphonso Elder Student Union.

In addition to dancing, the event includes food, games and other activities like pool and ping-pong. While the event at Raleigh’s Marbles Museum is so heavily attended that people are often turned away, Farmer said Durham’s dance sees about 200 people.

Folks come from miles around to attend, including soldiers from Fayetteville.

“One soldier has a son and two daughters and gets deployed often,” Farmer said. “He always has things to do with his son but not with his daughters, so the dance is perfect and he keeps coming back.”

Several local sponsors believe in the dance’s mission. Chick-fil-A, Coca-Cola, Edible Arrangements and graphic design and marketing business Privmadia Creative are all sponsors. The dance has also received the support of Durham’s firefighters and police officers.

This year’s function includes a fundraiser with Hillside High School’s marching band. Some of the money raised will go back to the school’s band program.

Activities at the dance include a necktie contest in which couples are judged on the best tied tie in less than three minutes. There are also trivia games testing how well couples know each other.

“It’s like the dating game,” Farmer told me. “We ask questions like ‘what was your father’s first love’s name?’”

The dance isn’t just for dads with young daughters. Last year fathers came with daughters well into their 40s dancing in the “Soul Train” line.

Many times mothers buy tickets for fathers as Father’s Day gifts, and Farmer tells dads to not take daughters for granted.

“Don’t wait until your daughters are married to dance with them,” he said. “Have that time now.”

It’s a bonding moment and a teaching moment.

Farmer said one of the most emotional moments every year is near the dance’s end when during the “rose ceremony” fathers pledge to be the best father possible. Afterward everyone dances to Luther Vandross’s classic “Dance with My Father.”

“There’s not a dry eye in the room,” Farmer said.

This year’s “Dance with my Father” Father’s Day dance will be held Saturday, June 16, at 7 p.m.

Advanced tickets are $25 per couple and $5 for each additional daughter. Door tickets are $30 per couple and $5 for each additional daughter. Prices cover entry, complimentary photo and food.

For tickets or to learn more visit dancewithmyfather.com.

A couple of weeks ago in the Durham News, Tracie Fellers wrote a touching column about measuring the relationship with her father “in love.”

Hearing words like that would make any dad proud of his job.

Farmer said once a month he eats lunch with Lauren at school. Her friends sit with them often and one commented one day that her father used to have lunch with her too but didn’t anymore.

“Maybe he thinks I’m too old,” she said.

Those words stuck with Farmer.

“Fathers set the tone for the man coming to his daughter’s life,” he said. “The thing you think doesn’t matter does. They’re never too old.”

Even with a son, I agree – never too old at all.