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

As a father, we need to actively listen.

Fatherhood is the greatest education a man can ever receive.

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

Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment (‘Daddy,’ wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, ‘people will ask “why is old Christopher Hitchens...

Prospero the Enchanter’s immediate reaction upon meeting his daughter is a simple declaration of: “Well, fuck.

The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time.

People know that Mr. Ellison had a tough beginning, they are aware of a little boy who strived for acceptance, who wished to be like all the other little boys on the block, but found...

Divorced from Reality.

Why do men like me want sons?” he wondered. “It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not...

We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take...

We’re constantly judging and grading other parents, just to make sure that they aren’t any better than us. I’m as guilty as anyone. I see some lady hand her kid a Nintendo DS at the...

A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.

I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the...

Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, “armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostered by his remarkable father.

A father knows his child’s heart, as only a child can know his fathers.

The health of your future kids does not start with their birth—it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.

The teaching of one true man will carry further and deeper then that would dozen white Babus.

What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking...

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.” Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

A child is not an adult, a child didn’t ask to be here. Any man that doesn’t take care of his responsibilities to his family and to his children, do me a favor STOP calling...

Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such questions? No, they cannot, and we will not impose on them an impossible restriction. The sight of...

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.

Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their father. He read aloud to them at night, eliciting their responses to works of history and literature. He organized amateur...

Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn’t even the goal, not for us, not for our children. Learning together to live well in an imperfect world, loving each other despite or even because...

The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn’t come from lectures or discipline or even time spent together. What has stuck with me is his example. From watching, I chose whether to be or...

I’m not the boss of my house. I don’t know how I lost it, I don’t know when I lost it, I don’t really think I ever had it. But I’ve seen the boss’s job…and...

Saturday mornings, I’ve learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.

It is very easy to be a military strategist, a mercenary, or a king, but much harder to be a father.

Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn’t like to, in order to protect his family.

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.