As a father, we need to actively listen.

Fatherhood is the greatest education a man can ever receive.

As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children’s lives.

Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.

Now let’s make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie’s Organic Mac & Cheese?

Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of...

[Nathan] wasn’t blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn’t crazy. He was a hero–a father who’d risked his life to rescue his son.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more...

A successful father is not more successful than his children.

Do whatever you must do to protect your children and wife.

Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.

For me, it’s not just about blessing my generation, I’ve done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.

A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?

No man wants his daughter to be the kind of girl whom he liked in high school.

it’s my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can’t be passive about that.

Father to teenage son: “My relationship with you is more important than anything I’ve got to say to you.

When kids made a decision for themselves they have a vested interest in showing they were right. Lee wanted to prove to me that he had made the right choice so he worked hard and...

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

Be faithful to the unknown, plan for it by expecting it rather than waiting for it to knock you down. I believe your husband will take care of you, for he is a hardworking sensible...

He says that we must protect our families no matter what. No matter what we got to do to protect them.

Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, ‘But who is to support the children?’ It seems to me that if the marriage ceremony is needed as a protection...

A father is a man who fails every day.

He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.

In retrospect, it seems obvious that my research about parenting was also a means to subdue my anxieties about becoming a parent…. I grew up afraid of illness and disability, inclined to avert my gaze...

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy’s notion of his father.

The sword of the Spirit has been muffled up and decked out with flowers and ribbons,” author writes, conveying the sentiments of a Congregationist minister on men’s ceding of moral and religious instruction and correction...

You cannot begin to understand the failure of marriage—or the living of these ideas commitment or covenant—without considering and factoring in the devaluing of fatherhood. The two are inextricably linked and dependent.

Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled calamity. Maybe she just doesn’t like children.Nobody likes children, Yunior, your mother assured...

You strive all through your life, to get somewhere, to be something, Some One, to matter, to have this, to have that, fill up your life with possessions, bonds, connections and in the end, the...

Papas should be loving their children so much that they cry when they gone. That’s what papas is supposed to do.

That evening he plays with the children, cleans the hamster’s cage with them, gets them into their pyjamas, and reads to them three times over, once together, then to Jake on his own, then to...

It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether...

Two weeks ago, Aaron and Isaac, I learned your mother Laura has breast cancer. My heart feels impaled. These words, so useless and feeble. Laura is only thirty-five years old. Her next birthday will be...

and he imagines carsand rides them in his dreams,so lonely growing up amongthe imaginary automobilesand dead souls of Tarrytownto createout of his own imaginationthe beauty of his wildforebears – a mythology he cannot inherit.

Dwight Eisenhower said that from the beginning, his mother and father operated on an assumption that set the course of his life – that the world could be fixed of its problems if every child...

Did you have any yourself?” she said.”Just one.”Harold thought of David, but it was too much to explain. He saw the boy as a toddler and how his face darkened in sunshine like a ripe...

How can you be a ‘Former-Father’? Is it possible to be a father but, because someone or something is determined to illegalize it, being a father becomes a thing of the past? Should you simply...

When faced with first time fatherhood at the age of 49, I didn’t know whether to celebrate with champagne… or hemlock.

He tried to disguise how tired and ill he was, how depressing the thought of death was to him and how he spent his days and nights thinking up schemes of living beyond what the...

All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.

What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one’s own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their...

Of all the titles that I’ve been privileged to have, the title of ‘dad’ has always been the best.

Abba is not Hebrew, the language of liturgy, but Aramaic, the language of home and everyday life … We need to be wary of the suggestion … that the correct translation of Abba is ‘Daddy.’...

We both lacked the same thing in our childhoods – the love of a father… We both sought to fill that lack in our adult lives with family and love, as everyone does, but also...

Many men have children, but not many children have ‘Fathers’. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills

Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who...

I was once, I am, and I will always be my children’s father. As to those individuals who have tried so desperately to destroy the fact, I offer forgiveness and seekreconciliation. As to the institutions...

Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like you wouldn’t go around lying to people about how wonderful it is, and you certainly wouldn’t ever do...

In his sovereignty, God looked down through history and specifically chose you to be the father of your child. He decided no one else could raise that boy or girl better than you. In all...