Zitat des Tages über Vaterschaft / Fatherhood:
There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.
Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
I walked into the wrong examination room. I'm bad enough at facial recognition... I saw more that day than I cared to. Fortunately, I didn't recognize her from that angle, whoever it was, and I didn't ask. I'm off to a rocky start on the road to fatherhood, but I got a free view.
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!
Fatherhood isn't always a planned thing, but when it happens you just do it. It's very natural and in that sense it's not really difficult.
It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.
Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!
I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
What I love most about fatherhood is the opportunity to be a part of the development process of a new life.
I'm a big fan of fatherhood, and I'm a big fan of my family.
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
I love fatherhood. I could bang on about kids forever.
They legislate fatherhood in Norway. It's not an option. That's a shocking thing to us in America.
I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I had a family, and I had never been around kids much at all. All of a sudden, I was around three boys all the time.
I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.
All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.
Fatherhood didn't just happen to me. I am deliberately living it, re-imagining it, and rediscovering it every day. It is as beautiful as I make it, just like anything else in life.
As a storyteller, you have to have something to say. You have to look at the world, think about it in relationship to yourself, and say, 'I think this is a pattern,' or 'I think this is the way fatherhood works,' or 'I think this is the way first love feels.' The danger in that is, that's when you open yourself up to real critique.
With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.
Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.
All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.