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What Star Dads Know About Parenting
Celebrity Fathers on How to Be a Great Dad
By Dr. Laurie Nadel
"I want to tell you one thing," Buttons told DeVito. "I went through therapy with my kids. We talked about all the time I was away doing movies or on the road for my comedy or in Vegas."
"We have to work, be away and do things that make life work," DeVito says. "Every single chance you get, you should be down on that blanket with your own kids. It goes by so fast."
Cuba Gooding, Jr., and his wife, Sara, have two sons and one daughter. He often counsels his male friends to just hang out with their children for one whole day without taking any calls.
"Hold your baby for two hours while he sleeps, because you'll never forget that day," Gooding says. "You might forget the deal that paid the bills, but when you're old, you'll always remember how your baby felt in your arms."
Kelsey Grammar, who has four children of his own, believes that kids need to learn how to spend time by themselves. The actor who played Frasier, a psychiatrist with his own call-in radio show, insists that it jus isn't good for them. And that's not all. "The entire family will get sick each time the child has a sniffle," Grammar says.
