Fathering Quotes
Fathering Quote of the day
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.
Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.
When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.
If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.
There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.