Spend more quality time with your children saysSRK

"Each time I am away from home for long I make sure that on return I have spent enough time and catch up with my children. I am sure a lot of fathers today go through this guilt as they may have missed seeing their child grow," said the actor-producer who recently shot for a toothpaste commercial as a doting dad today.

"In most cases, fathers never realise this as they have been busy with work, office meetings, deals and catching up with friends that they tend to miss out on smaller but important moments of their child's growing years."

He said life has indeed become very mechanical for many young working parents that I see but there is a definite need to work around it. Childhood habits, illnesses, accidents, school disruption and under achievements are just some issues
that work as precursors of problems in adulthood and the next
generation.

There are several aspects of parenting that come into play from understanding the growth and development of a child, helping form good habits and of course disciplining your child, he said.

"Children are impressionable. So, parenting is not about you, your feelings, or your thoughts on how the child should develop. Instead it is about the person your child is and can be. While most of us did not figure out what we wanted to be until we were older, a lot of us had ideas about the types of careers, the type of person and what we want out of life as we grew up," SRK said.

Being a parent is the greatest joy for him and playing the perfect father is the best role ever (he got), he said.

"I am the actor-entertainer, it is definitely my children that offer unconditional love and bring entertainment and joy to my life," he added.

"Probably a little rethinking and finding out new ways to balance life would help, "he said adding that If he has successfully managed to get this right, others too could.