Dave Grohl's mom, Virginia Grohl, could not be more proud of the dad her son has become. In an interview with The Guardian in 2017, she praised her son for being a hands-on father. "He makes their breakfast, he packs their lunch, and then he goes to the studio," she said, before noting that he "really is as nice as everyone says."
In his aforementioned 2014 "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" interview, Dave opened up what his morning routine looks like now that he's a dad. And yes, just as his mom said, he's involved in all the day-to-day minutiae. "I get up, and I get in the shower and get my act together," he said. "And then I gotta get them up out of the bed, but then I gotta get the snack packs going, they come into the kitchen, and I get the breakfast going. Once they've had breakfast, I get them dressed, and they get dressed, and I get the backpacks and the snack packs into my minivan."
As the frontman of one of the biggest rock bands in recent history, Dave has spent a lot of his life out on the road. However, when his kids entered the picture, he was ready to make a significant change to his work-life balance. As he told Time in 2009, "I used to tour nine months out of the year. Now I don't like being away from my kids for more than 12 days."
