“As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.” FeelsMatterLightPainTurnsPresidentWifeLike YouPersonalityDadBillsClintonVicesBranchesExecutivesAlsAnnoyingNerdGoreVice PresidentTurn OffExecutive Branch Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to make our kids think that we're super spiritual or we've got it all together. They see mom and dad being real people. What they hear dad talking about at home is not different from what they see from dad [at church]. That won't guarantee that they'll avoid the whole PK, MK thing. But we are hopefully not contributing to what normally produces that crisis, which is pretending.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifferentRealWholeHomeKidsTogetherSpiritualThreeChurchTalkingWorryWifeProduceMomDadCrisisMy WifeHopefullyGuaranteesPretendingBeing RealContributingGuarantees ThatMom And DadHopefully Not Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.” WayFirstsKidsSchoolFunStuffCuttingWifeDadFirst TimeMy DadMy WifeCooksMakersItalianKnivesSauceOld SchoolPastaHomemadeNoodlesItalian FoodMeatballsMy Wife And Kids Author:Joey Fatone
“It's not a secret family like I have a beautiful, gorgeous wife in Tokyo; I have another mom and dad. I'm the kid and I have another mom and dad in Atwater Village, Los Angeles.” KidsBeautifulSecretWifeMomDadLos AngelesVillageGorgeousMom And DadTokyo Author:John Hodgman
“I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.” MenFirstsDifferentMotherThreeFatherParentWifeRocksBrotherMomDadHusbandMy DadMy MomCombinationMy BrotherOlder Brother Author:Inara George
“I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing.” WantYearsSaidWantedGrowsWaterGrowing UpComedyWifeDadMy DadComedianPerformersLaughedBoilingCutestBoiling Water Author:Sandra Bernhard
“My wife Jennifer's family is all from there. Jennifer grew up there, so we have personal ties forever - her mom, dad, her brother, her twin brother - so, there's certainly a personal connection there that will also be there. Also, even though I grew up in Omaha, I feel like I really grew up in Milwaukee.” FeelsForeverWifeBrotherGrewMomDadGrew UpConnectionsMy WifeTiesTwinsJenniferOmahaMilwaukeePersonal ConnectionTwin BrotherMom Dad Author:Peter Buffett
“David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.” YearsKindChildrenTogetherArtistWifeDadDirectorsMy WifeVideoMakeupPreschoolMakeup ArtistOldest Child Author:Anthony Edwards