The list is inexhaustible.
For me, I was not really opportuned to know and understand parenting from my father as he died a long time before I got concuousness of my being.
A good father plays with the children. It truly keeps them smarter. He cares and cherishes then all his life.
He also provides for them the kind of things he didn’t get while growing up even though he may have wanted them. This keeps them contempted with what they have.
A father figure most especially is important in training a child mostly in the life of a male child. The child looks up to an examplary life in the father and wishes to be like dad