I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was a really involved dad - not because I'm such a wonderful person. I like being a dad.
I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.
I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.
It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.
My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.
I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.
I think I am probably a lot like my father.
As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.
I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a mentor to me in my manhood because my mom couldn't teach me how to be a man.
I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I'm not that grown-up myself.