Gordon Clay here. This Sunday is Father's Day. What does Father's Day mean to you? Getting presents? The chance to sit back and relax as your kids volunteer to do all the chores they normally dread?

Most fathers would never intentionally fail to provide their family with food, shelter and clothing. But they may be unintentionally shortchanging their children when it comes to their own time.

I've got an idea. Rather than getting presents from your children, why not give them your presence.

Get off the sofa on Father's Day and spend the day with your children. Use Father's Day to be there for them.

Here are some ways you can go about establishing meaningful Father's Day family rituals and creating memories for your children.

On Father's Day teach your children something you know how to do, whether it is how to fish, how to cook a favorite dish, how to bowl or how to use a tool.

Make a ritual of planting something together: vegetables, flowers or maybe even a tree. Take a Father's Day bike ride or hike and record where you went and what you did. Remember to take photos of each other and your activities.

On Father's Day, have a news conference and let your children be newspaper reporters who are interviewing you. Let them ask you about your favorite sport, your favorite color, food or TV show. Talk about what it was like when you were growing up, your chores at home and what it was like in school. Then turn the tables and interview them.

A father's presence in his children's lives is the greatest present any father can ever give or receive.

Remember, it doesn't take much to become a father. It takes a lot more to become a dad.

Happy Father's Day.