This I Believe: On Fatherhood - Hardcover

Excerpts from This I Believe: On Fatherhood

"As much as I resisted it, in a way, I became him. People compare me to my father. I'm proud of that. I just had to do some living to see it."?Lawrence Newton, Washington, DC

"I'm not 'watching the kids' in my wife's absence, and I am not the stand-in parental unit. Being my boys' father entitles me to all of the benefits and responsibilities of the job, all of the time."?Jeff Sloan, Colorado

"I sat there in the dark, surrounded by the soothing sounds and smells of my baby's room, and I thought of how Dad must have felt when I was born. I knew at that moment that he never intended to hurt me. I realized that he loved me just as I loved my son."?Bryan McGuire, Illinois

"Pride in achievement. Joy in effort. Work as play. My father never attended college, but he knew these truths. He learned them on the basketball court, and he taught them to me."?Nick Capo, Illinois

"No one fills the shoes of a father. But the footprint that the man who fathered them left behind does not have to stay empty."?Michele Weldon, Illinois

". . . when I see all three of my kids laughing, when I think about how much less my life would have been if I'd settled for what I thought I'd wanted, I realize I don't much care about the sensible things I once did."?Claude Knobler, California

"We sat in silence for the nearly twenty-hour drive. He didn't say much, but he didn't have to. Without a speech, my father lived the lesson he was trying to teach me for so long. He really didn't ever give up?even on me."?M. C. Hackett, Ohio