Ben Affleck: Daughter Violet Happy as Hell

10/12/2007

To shelter daughter Violet from developing a sense of entitlement, her celebrated parents Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are looking at schools in Los Angeles and New York – and in Georgia, where the family has a country home.

Of course, they do have some time: Violet isn't quite 2.

Still, her proud papa, 35, considers his little girl "the best thing that ever happened to me," he tells Parade magazine for its Oct. 14 issue.

"She is happy as hell and talks like crazy!" says Affleck. "She has the ability to make me smile and feel so good and be so charmed that, when I'm not with her for a while, all I want to do is go home, just to be around her again."

It wasn't always that Affleck found contentment in his personal life, he also tells Parade in comments that appear on the magazine's Web site.

"I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did," he admits. "I played sports, but I wasn't great at them. ... There was alcoholism at home because of my father. I changed schools [at 8 years old], and I didn't really know the kids at the new school. I felt alone." 

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