Quotes About Parenting

What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn.

My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.

My kids are now the most popular kids in their school.

I'm going to raise my kids the opposite of how I was raised. I wasn't given healthy food, educated on portion control, or encouraged to exercise. I wish I had those things.

Dads have been increasingly hands-on for quite a while. And yet, we still insist on portraying dads as bumbling idiots.

People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can't.

It's important for parents to put kids in positions where they can succeed and to teach competition because competition exists not only in sports.

I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.

If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.

There are a lot of young people out there who need to start using their idle time in a positive way. Parents need to play an important role in making sure their children succeed in school.

I think my children deserve to have a relationship with their mother... and their father. The children deserve the opportunity to meet their parents' significant others in a good, positive way.

My message for young parents is that although it is very natural to worry, it doesn't lead to anything. Try to live positively because your attitude is going to rub off on your children.

My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.

Anxiety about the possibility that children will be corrupted if they hear rude words has been around for a long time.

Having a child is a lifetime commitment, the biggest one you can possibly make.

At first I was a little leery to just post photos of my little girl all the time and kind of exploit her to the world.

I try to be aware of my kids' autonomy in terms of my Instagram, but I do post them a lot. I would never want to post something that would embarrass them or that later they'd feel some sort of shame for.

A lot of people don't post about their kids or do anything. With us, we are so proud and so blessed to have our children, and we also know how happy we are, that I feel like we would love to share it. We are not trying to exploit anything in any way; honestly, I am just proud of my kids and just happy to have them.

It's a dilemma for every modern parent - how to keep children safe on social media without monitoring their every post.

I am really bad at being a mom. I think it's hard for me to be a mom. I do my best. I am not the poster child for being a mother, I will say that. I wish I was.

The central government role is to ensure that what goes on in the school is revealed to parents and potential parents. It is not, absolutely not, to run the school.

I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here?

Since I had children, I cry all the time - I just had a little cry in 'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.'