Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.
John WilmotTags: children marriage theory parenting aging fatherhood
...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
Lloyd AlexanderTags: fatherhood
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.
Donald MillerTags: fear love fatherhood boyhood
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?
Stephen ColbertTags: humor family satire parenting role-models fatherhood
Much of life, fatherhood included, is the story of knowledge acquired too late: if only I’d known then what I know now, how much smarter, abler, stronger, I would have been. But nothing really prepares you for kids, for the swells of emotion that roll through your chest like the rumble of boulders tumbling downhill, nor for the all-enveloping labor of it, the sheer mulish endurance you need for the six or seven hundred discrete tasks that have to be done each and every day. Such a small person! Not much bigger than a loaf of bread at first, yet it takes so much to keep the whole enterprise going. Logistics, skills, materiel; the only way we really learn is by figuring it out as we go along, and even then it changes on us every day, so we’re always improvising, which is a fancy way of saying that we’re doing things we technically don’t know how to do.
Ben FountainTags: life parenting fatherhood
Assuming mother's absence is only for a short time, don't be too concerned if you find yourself being more relaxed than she is over what the children eat. It is far better to maintain harmony and let mother cope with the problem later. You can use the excuse "You are only having this because Mummy's in hospital!".
Nursing Mothers' Association of AustraliaTags: cooking relationship amusing fatherhood
Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn't like to, in order to protect his family.
Ralph MoodyTags: family responsibility fatherhood
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.
Christopher HitchensTags: god death religion atheism mortality yeats daughters fathers fatherhood
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 kissing that girl?"') and shall now cease and desist.
Christopher HitchensTags: women parenthood kisses daughters fathers-and-daughters fatherhood the-new-school
The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.
Antoine François Prévost d'ExilesTags: fathers fatherhood french-literature
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