My parents had a 1950's style of raising me and my sibling. As the firstborn male, I grew up resenting my father because he was never around to take me to ball games or other stuff that a lot of other fathers did with their sons. As I got older and had my own family I realized the crazy pressure men and fathers face in this society and I understood it. I certainly didn't like it and I choose to be different when I had children with my partner.

I'm deeply involved with my kids. We have such a loving and open relationship that I joke, "I made my best friends."

My relationship got better with my father and I realized that he was a lot like me, very empathetic but forced into society's expectation of what a man is supposed to be and do.

It wasn't until right before his death when he talked to me about his regrets and one of them is how he wasn't as involved in my early life.

I love every moment of being a Dad, the good and the bad because it's through how I raise my children that I change the world.