{"quotes":[{"text":"...If I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, so that plague and misfortune would pass over them. Alas, I lack the qualifications. So when there was still world and time enough I fretted. I nagged. I corrected. I got everything wrong.","author":"Mordecai Richler","tags":["babies-kids-children-givingup","concern-for-others","fatherhood","fret","fretting","maternal-love","maternalism","motherhood","paternal-love","paternal-protection","paternalism","protect-my-sleeping-babes","worry"],"id":1933,"author_id":"Mordecai+Richler"},{"text":"I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... Let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["childhood","children","fatherhood","growing-up","inspirational","inspirational-life","inspirational","inspiring","kids","life","life-and-living","living","motherhood","parenthood","parenting","parenting-children"],"id":9561,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Life is so sweet even though it is full of lies and half truths...","author":"Janvier Chouteu-Chando","tags":["family","fatherhood","grief","inspirational","life","love","motivational","regret"],"id":29382,"author_id":"Janvier+Chouteu-Chando"},{"text":"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 to insure the enforced support of children, then you are marrying a man who, you suspect, would under certain conditions, refuse to support his children, and it is a pretty low-down proposition. For you are marrying a man whom you already suspect of being a villain. But I have not so poor an opinion of men that I believe the greater percentage of them to be such low specimens of humanity.","author":"Isadora Duncan","tags":["children","fatherhood","feminism","marriage","men"],"id":30849,"author_id":"Isadora+Duncan"},{"text":"When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn’t matter what he does.","author":"Clayton Lessor MA","tags":["boy","childhood","discipline","family","father","fatherhood","growing-up","mentor","mother","motherhood","parent","parenthood","parenting","personal-responsibility","rite-of-passage","role-model","sense-of-belonging","son","teenager"],"id":37113,"author_id":"Clayton+Lessor+MA"},{"text":"It’s time to stop dreaming about who you want your son to be and help him become the healthy, happy, and successful man he’s supposed to be.","author":"Clayton Lessor MA","tags":["boy","childhood","discipline","family","father","fatherhood","growing-up","mentor","mother","motherhood","parent","parenthood","parenting","personal-responsibility","rite-of-passage","role-model","sense-of-belonging","son","teenager"],"id":41429,"author_id":"Clayton+Lessor+MA"},{"text":"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 supermarket and I instantly downgrade that lady to Shitty Parent status. I feel pressure to live up to a parental ideal that no one probably has ever achieved. I feel pressure to raise a group of human beings that will help America kick the shit out of Finland and South Korea in the world math rankings. I feel pressure to shield my kids from the trillion pages of hentai donkey porn out there on the Internet. I feel pressure to make the insane amounts of money needed for a supposedly 'middle-class' upbringing for the kids, an upbringing that includes a house and college tuition and health care and so many other expenses that you have to be a multimillionaire to afford it. PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE.","author":"Drew Magary","tags":["children","competition","expectations","expense","fatherhood","parenting","pressure"],"id":42259,"author_id":"Drew+Magary"},{"text":"He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["bitterness","fatherhood","gratitude","parenthood","thought-life"],"id":44194,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"},{"text":"Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled calamity. Maybe she just doesn't like children.Nobody likes children, Yunior, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.","author":"Junot Díaz","tags":["children","fatherhood","motherhood","parenting"],"id":45277,"author_id":"Junot+D%C3%ADaz"},{"text":"I know that not every family is a clean-cut nuclear Mom and Dad at home situation - but I think every father needs to do whatever he can to be present in the lives of his kids. If you are in a situation where you have not been - fight for it. Don’t give up till you get it. Don’t be a jerk about it - don’t “fight” mom - but “fight” whatever things tell you to just give up. Send cards, make phone calls, pay your support, and do whatever you can to be present in the lives of your children.","author":"Josh Hatcher","tags":["divorce","family","fatherhood","fathers","manhood","parenting"],"id":45342,"author_id":"Josh+Hatcher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":168,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}