As thousands of dads across the Illawarra get treated to breakfast in bed and a new pair of novelty socks on Sunday, others may be filling in time on a day they'd rather forget.
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Coal miner and doting father Ratu "Sugar" Suka volunteers for Dads4Kids, mentoring struggling dads through tough times and inspiring them to be the best they can be.
On Friday the Fijian-born Mr Suka met BHP officials to pitch the idea of offering the Good to Great parenting course to employees and hopes to pitch it to other businesses in the Illawarra.
"To do your job right you have to go through uni or TAFE, but when it comes to being a father we don't have that in the community or in society, yet we want to be great [at it]," he said.
He explained working underground in mines he had seen so much "pain and destruction" caused by relationship breakdowns and especially from workmates being separated from their children.
"A happy wife, happy life - it's true!" he said. "If my family life is miserable and I'm struggling, then I take that and it rubs off on my workmates ... and I'm not focused on what I do. Sometimes it can lead to injury or me injuring another person," he said. "It's costing the company a lot of money, it's costing production, it's costing safety."
Mr Suka said he has worked hard to foster a good relationship with his family.
"To become the greatest dad ... we need to put in effort," he said. "Children don't deserve mediocre dads."
In 2004 he chose to go through the Good to Great course himself to improve his fathering skills, and admitted he would have lost his marriage and his family if he hadn't.
He believed in the program so much that, in 2013, he began facilitating in the region and has since seen many success stories.
"Sometimes we say happy Father's Day to some men but they hate it because they don't see their children, or they don't see the father, or don't have a good relationship with their father ... or they lost the man that they look up to," he said.
Mr Suka sees Sunday as an opportunity to help those men that may be doing it tough, while others can use it as a reminder to give their all for their children. He said society today was giving people the easy way out, but instead people should "knuckle down and work together".
For more information about the course, visit www.dads4kids.org.au.
