Ian Frazier Quotes

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

My children see me being coach enough. I gotta make sure they see me being dad.

All people naturally hate. My kid bites people now. I didn't teach my kid to bite anybody. Kids say mean stuff. Only through love do we get this evil out of them. Only through love and structure and discipline do they not hate. The kids that hate didn't learn anything, that's the problem.

Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.

I wanted to be the dad that was able to feed my daughter, hold my daughter, really be there for my daughter.

As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

I look at him [son Eric] and I think of my dad all the time.... I was born to be a dad.

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.

The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad--aka the Fun-Sucker--as opposed to being a friend.

My mom is one of those really angry moms who gets mad at absolutely everything. Once when I was a little kid, I accidentally knocked a Flintstones glass off the kitchen table. She said, 'Well, dammit, we can't have nice things.'

I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.

I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults. That's fascinating to me. I've had a lot of very interesting parenting techniques that I've employed with my own daughter that have worked really well, so far.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads.

Being a dad has made me more aware of myself. I can see all of my virtues and flaws. They become glaringly clear when my daughter communicates with me in the same ways that I communicate with her. I can really tell where and when I went wrong.

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

[Fatherhood] is everything.... The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world.... We put in long days. And to go home and have dinner with your kids, and have to discipline one of them who's out of line, and still have the energy for that is.... I can't explain the fulfillment of that, but it is everything.

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.