Quotes About Parenting

If my parents or Wayne's parents are around and can watch the kids and give us a bit of spare time, then on a Friday night I like to pamper myself and relax.

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.

I think some people really change when they become a dad. Like, I've changed in different ways. I - but, like, my comedy hasn't changed. And I've also seen people do that where you become this - you become a dad, and then all of a sudden, you're trying to be a role model.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible.

Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother.

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.

When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life really is and what few things there really are to worry about. And everything else can go by the wayside.

In today's world, everyone's so clued into their iPhones, and communication is going by the wayside as far as one-on-one is concerned. It's very seldom that I walk into a room and parents make their children say hello and have a social grace with one another.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Your children live or die without you. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It's a devastating realization, but liberating.

I have three kids. Now they're all grown up, but when they were little, every time I would start a new project, they would say, 'So dad, are you making a movie we can watch or one we cannot watch?' That's the kind of stuff they would ask. People around me - family and friends - usually know when to watch and when not to watch.

I have five children. There were four boys. The fifth, I got weak, and a girl came.

Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me.

Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement.

I never wanted my kids to have the experience of not knowing me or where they came from. I never want them to wonder, 'Did he love me?' I want to be there at the pivotal moments, for them to know how proud I am of who they are becoming.

When you're working from home and you've got children, a big night out is going to Pizza Express down the road.

People always want to know what I fed my kids. I gave them real food, not frozen pizza.

I learned real fast that you need to have a plan of action when changing diapers, or it can get dicey fast.

I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

Bathrooms on the plane are so small. Where are you supposed to change a baby?

I don't know how I lucked out so much because I have a baby who likes to fly. She is awesome on the plane.

Motherhood takes vanity completely out of the picture. Comfort is the key. When you are coming out of a plane after a 9-hour flight with drool all over your clothes, the last thing you are worried about is being photographed. You just want to take your kid home.