Ben Affleck says Violet is a Happy Girl

Ben Affleck is a very proud dad and says daughter Violet is "the best thing that ever happened to me" in the new issue of Parade magazine.

"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."

Although he's making her childhood as happy as possible, he admits that wasn't always the case for him as a child.

"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."

Although Violet is only 2, the proud dad hopes to minimize the same esteem issues for his own daughter and is already looking at schools in Los Angeles, New York, and Georgia.