Billy Ray Cyrus: I could have been a better dad

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/cele....html?hpt=Sbin

A friend to his kids

In terms of his own choices, and the sort of father he tries to be, Cyrus admits he might have taken a wrong turn.

"I did kind of approach being a dad as a friend," he said. "I was a great playmate. I mean, for teaching [my children] how to camp and build fires and ride motorcycles and four-wheelers, and horses, and all those fun kind of things. I was really good at that."

But, he concedes, "As far as sitting down and doing algebra and science, the homework, I wasn't very good at that. So I look back on it and think, 'You know what? Maybe, no doubt, I could have been a better dad.' "

Moving ahead, "I still want to be Miley's friend," said Cyrus, who sees himself as "that person she comes to talk to." When it comes to Miley, he declared, he loves her "more than life itself."

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As a father of two children under 5 - my hope was at first to be their best friend, but after a long time considering things - they will have a ton of great friends, they need a role model and father (positive authority figure) in their lives. Sadly I see a few dads ( and moms ) who try to hard to be "best buddy" but it doesn't work out because in the end the child will look at the parent as they would any best friend and say "screw you" if they don't like the advice and also no friend is an authority or someone to give direction.

Any dads here?