Dakota Meyer Quotes

I understand how important it is for both parents to be in a child's life.

I'm so obsessed and involved with my son.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

I'm completely in love with my children, and I participate in their lives on every level.

Nobody can raise your kids like you can yourself.

Active dads make a positive contribution: they are good for children and they are good for mothers.

Just being able to be around your kid, I don't think anything can beat that.

America needs more fathers taking an active role in their children's lives.

I want my children to have fantastic memories of their growing years, so I try to be as much a part of their lives as possible.

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

If you're not yelling at your kids, then you're not spending enough time with them!

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who were parents and their kids. And I was really impressed. They all sort of managed to do it, and do it gracefully.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I see my boys about 10 days every month. And, yes, they are the most important people in my life.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.