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Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

I'm just constantly trying to be a good dad.

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

I think you need something to take care of in order to figure out who you are as a person, and in that way, being a dad has levelled me out more than anything. You've just got to be good for that person no matter what's going on in your head that day.

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

My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.

One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.