Ben Affleck’s Best Fatherhood Quotes While Raising Kids Violet, Seraphina and Samuel

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Ben Affleck's Best Fatherhood Quotes While Raising Kids Violet, Seraphina and Samuel

Fatherhood fun! Ben Affleck has given rare glimpses of his bond with his and Jennifer Garner’s three kids over the years. The actor first became a dad in December 2005 when he and the Alias alum welcomed daughter Violet, six months after tying the knot in France. The then-couple went on to welcome daughter Seraphina and son Samuel in January 2009 and February 2012, respectively, before calling it quits in 2015. “After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce,” the duo wrote in a joint statement at the time. “We go forward with love and friendship for one another and a commitment to coparenting our children whose privacy we ask to be respected during this difficult time. This will be our only comment on this private, family matter. Thank you for understanding.” The exes, who finalized their divorce in October 2018, now coparent their three children, which has been a “work in progress.” A source exclusively explained to Us Weekly in February 2020 that they are "doing the best they can," saying, "Things come up between them, but ... they stay on top of things and have a lot of meetings and check-ins. They want to be the best parents they can for the kids. If they have differences, they keep it to themselves and don’t let it have an impact. They always put on happy faces for the kids and put their well-being first.” [jwplayer Ajzt7J6r-zhNYySv2] Three months later, another insider added that the twosome have “worked hard to get to a good place” raising Violet, Seraphina and Samuel. Affleck and Garner have written touching tributes to each other since calling it quits, with the Golden Globe winner wishing the 13 Going on 30 star a happy Mother’s Day via Instagram in May 2021. “So happy to share these kids with you,” the Oscar winner gushed at the time. “Luckiest parents in the world. Thanks for all the good you do.” Three years prior, Garner wrote in an Instagram post of her own that her daughters and son were “lucky” to have Affleck in their life, adding, “[I’m glad they] have a dad who looks at them the way you look at them and loves them the way you love them. #haveagreatday.” Keep scrolling to read Affleck’s candid parenting quotes over the years, from decorating Samuel's bedroom to introducing Violet and Seraphina to Taylor Swift.

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Ben Affleck's Best Fatherhood Quotes While Raising Kids Violet, Seraphina and Samuel

Fatherhood fun! Ben Affleck has given rare glimpses of his bond with his and Jennifer Garner’s three kids over the years. The actor first became a dad in December 2005 when he and the Alias alum welcomed daughter Violet, six months after tying the knot in France. The then-couple went on to welcome daughter Seraphina and son Samuel in January 2009 and February 2012, respectively, before calling it quits in 2015. “After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce,” the duo wrote in a joint statement at the time. “We go forward with love and friendship for one another and a commitment to coparenting our children whose privacy we ask to be respected during this difficult time. This will be our only comment on this private, family matter. Thank you for understanding.” The exes, who finalized their divorce in October 2018, now coparent their three children, which has been a “work in progress.” A source exclusively explained to Us Weekly in February 2020 that they are "doing the best they can," saying, "Things come up between them, but ... they stay on top of things and have a lot of meetings and check-ins. They want to be the best parents they can for the kids. If they have differences, they keep it to themselves and don’t let it have an impact. They always put on happy faces for the kids and put their well-being first.” [jwplayer Ajzt7J6r-zhNYySv2] Three months later, another insider added that the twosome have “worked hard to get to a good place” raising Violet, Seraphina and Samuel. Affleck and Garner have written touching tributes to each other since calling it quits, with the Golden Globe winner wishing the 13 Going on 30 star a happy Mother’s Day via Instagram in May 2021. “So happy to share these kids with you,” the Oscar winner gushed at the time. “Luckiest parents in the world. Thanks for all the good you do.” Three years prior, Garner wrote in an Instagram post of her own that her daughters and son were “lucky” to have Affleck in their life, adding, “[I’m glad they] have a dad who looks at them the way you look at them and loves them the way you love them. #haveagreatday.” Keep scrolling to read Affleck’s candid parenting quotes over the years, from decorating Samuel's bedroom to introducing Violet and Seraphina to Taylor Swift.

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A Good Review?

"My kids constantly make fun of me, and they won't watch any of my movies, but I showed them some clips from this and my daughter was like, 'That actually looks kind of interesting!'" Affleck told Entertainment Tonight in May 2023 while promoting his thriller Hypnotic. "So I thought that was the best review that I could get, and I hope audiences come away from it having really enjoyed the movie."

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Cue the Critiques

“It's funny because [Armageddon is] the one movie of mine that my kids have watched and they'll kind of all admit to liking even though they relentlessly mock it, and me. ‘What, are you driving a tank to the moon?’ But they had fun,” Affleck said in a January 2022 Entertainment Weekly interview, noting that they “won’t even watch” The Town.

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Fame Game

“As my kids got older and started seeing the internet themselves, that's the difficult part [of being a celebrity],” Affleck told the Los Angeles Times in January 2022. “Even the Sad Affleck meme — that was funny to me. I mean, there's nobody who hasn't felt that way at a junket. But then my kids see it and I think, 'Oh, are they going to think their dad is fundamentally sad or they have to worry about me?' That's really tough.”

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So Starstruck

Affleck's daughters are "the loudest kids on the planet" but would "not speak" when they met Swift, he hilariously told Kelly Clarkson in January 2022.

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Mood Boost

"My life is better and I am happier the more I am around my kids," the director said during a December 2021 Good Morning America appearance. "We all want to pass on the best of ourselves to our children. I don't care who you are, I'm quite sure you feel at some point in your life you've taken missteps, nobody wants to transfer that to our children and that is a real task that everybody faces, whatever those issues are. ... I will be long dead and someone will ask my kids, 'What was your dad like?' and that is when I will know what my life was worth."

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LOL

"You might think so, but you would be wrong," Affleck told Extra in December 2021 when asked whether his children think he's cool. "I don’t think I’m that cool anyway but whoever you are, if you’re somebody’s parent, you’re not cool to somebody in the world. … That’s part of life. You realize there’s something kind of healthy about embarrassing your kids.”

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Cue the Competition

"My daughter is 14 and she’s always been a very good student," Affleck told Clarkson of Violet in March 2020. "She’s been interested in Spanish so I often help her, and all of the sudden, she’s gotten to the grade where she’s, like, in the harder Spanish classes. She’s getting better and she’s right at the point where I think she might be passing me. And I’m like, ‘Nope, that is not happening. I don’t mind that I can’t do your math homework and you’re 14, but you’re not going to be better at Spanish than me.' ... I decided to take classes to keep up."

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Football Fan

While Affleck is proud of the Tom Brady painting, “gigantic football bisected by a slide" and helmet-shaped chair in his son's room, he told Jimmy Kimmel in February 2019 that Garner finds it "creepy."

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Royally Cute

"Despite going to Windsor Castle, Tower of London and Buckingham Palace, we didn’t see one royal. Then when it was raining, I took my youngest to one of those kids' indoor play parks. It was pretty empty, and then I noticed this weird vibe from the other grown-ups," Affleck recalled to Graham Norton in November 2016. "I thought, 'For a kids' place, this is tight security!' I was the very last person to realize that Prince George and Princess Charlotte were in there playing with my kid. I can now tell him that he got a cold from the king of England!"

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Being There While He Can

In a March 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Affleck explained that one reason he's pivoting more to the production side of filmmaking is because he wants to be able to spend more time with his kids. "I don’t want to go to Austin and New Orleans and Georgia anymore and not see my kids. It just doesn’t work," he said. "These years are too important. If I miss them, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life. And then I thought, 'OK, well, if I’m in Los Angeles and I’m in an office and I’m doing this work, I can step out for the basketball game or the jazz performance.' So I protect those things."