"The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand……" — Frank Pittman
"The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent."
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26 Quotes by Frank Pittman
Frank Pittman has 26 quotes on this site.
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The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be
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Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to…
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Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do
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A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner…
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A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the…
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Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just…
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The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.
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Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.
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Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through…
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Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system…
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Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
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No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
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