The Good Father

When I see a powerful efficient, competent man coming home from work and getting down on all fours to play with his children, laugh with them, become a child with them, I say to myself that this father is really human. He does not regard his children from on high, from some pedestal of authority and knowledge. He allows himself to be touched by their littleness. .

- Jean Vanier, Our Journey Home, p. 219