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Learn how to be a loving father from the perspective of a hero who sacrificed his life for his daughter. Find out what loving fathers do to love their children's mother, provide, discipline, value education, and more.
- “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.” — Jim Valvano.
- “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." ―
- “Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.” — Frank Pittman.
- “A father is the man who can change a world he will not be part of by building the tiny human that is part of him.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough.
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- Be present and involved. Just because we may be the ones providing for our family doesn’t mean that we should leave this duty exclusively to the moms.
- Say you’re sorry. When we take ownership of our mistakes, we’re teaching our kids to take responsibility for theirs. Whether with our kids, or maybe with a subordinate at work there is nothing quite so powerful as apologizing for our mistakes.
- Spend quality time with your family. You may be busy at work, but it’s important that you make time for your family. When they’re older your wife and kids won’t remember you worked hard to provide for them; they’ll remember you weren’t there.
- Take an active interest in their interests. Guess what? I’m not a huge Katie Perry fan. But you know how many times I’ve heard her music? It’s well into the hundreds.
- Cherish your time with them. One thing that will amaze you is how quickly the years will fly. My oldest daughter is 15, which means I have three short years with her before she leaves the nest.
- It gets easier. Others may have different experiences, but I’ve always found the first couple of months the most difficult, when the baby is brand new and wants to feed at all hours of the night and you often have sleepless nights and walk around all day like zombies.
- Don’t look at anything as “mom” duties — share responsibilities. While there are a lot of good things from our grandparents’ day that we should bring back, the traditional dad/mom split of parenting duties isn’t one of them.
- Love conquers all. This one sounds corny, but it should be at the center of your dad operating philosophy: above all, show your children love. When you’re upset, instead of yelling, show them love.
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