Dakota Meyer Quotes

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

I know how critical that is, having a mother and father involved in your life, and I'm going to continue to be the most involved father hopefully that you'll ever see.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

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 set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

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

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

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

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.

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

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

We are our children's first teachers.

I think we as fathers have to say good things about our children or else they will beat us.