This is a big year for Tim McGraw as a dad. All three of his daughters (Gracie, Maggie and Audrey) are all officially adults. His youngest daughter, Audrie, turned 18 back in December, and is graduating from high school this year.

Tim is proud that all of his daughters still hold on to a lot of the life lessons he and Faith Hill taught them growing up. From the big lessons, like always be kind, to the smaller ones, like always have respect for your elders. In fact, Tim recently shared, “We were talking to Gracie last night and she had her friend at her house, and she had met her friend’s parents, and she called her parents ‘yes ma’am and no ma’am, and yes sir and no sir.’”

The friend’s parents told Gracie she didn’t need to use ma’am and sir with them, but according to Tim, “Gracie says, ‘Look, I can feel my mom yelling at me from across the country if I don’t say yes ma’am or no ma’am, and yes sir or no sir.’ She was laughing about that. That’s something to us, where we grew up, it shows respect, and it’s nice to see our kids still do that.”

Tim knocks on wood and says, “We got three daughters and they’re all just really super, special good kids.”

Listen for Tim’s current top 20 single “I Called Mama” on Bloomington-Normal’s #1 Country, B104.

With Father’s Day coming this Sunday (6/21), are there lessons that your dad taught you that you still abide by today?