Quotes About Parenting

Before you have kids, you can blow up and get mad, then you have kids and they teach you the opposite. You have to be patient when you're helping - whether it's with school work or potty training, it's a whole other level of patience.

I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I'm desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter.

I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.

Kids do gross things. For several months, mine would combine everything on her plate into a single bowl, pour her drink on top of it, then mash it up and eat it with her hands. It didn't matter what it was.

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.

As a mother living in poverty, I don't expect my parenting choices to be respected by default.

When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.

If parents shield their children from real feelings, kids falsely imagine their parents are in constant control of themselves - and may try to emulate them.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

With a child, it was difficult to take up films, as it would have consumed a lot of time.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

I had a baby and that is pretty time consuming.

When you give your children certain life lessons, and they come and ask you for additional advice, you say to yourself, 'I've done my job,' and you'll continue to do your job.

The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.

I'm very conventional compared to my parents.

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

I've always thought my dad was fantastic and now I'm a dad myself I can see what an incredible sacrifice he made as a man in the 60s - he was there every day for me, cooked my meals and shaped me.

I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.

My kids always joked that I spent more time cooking the birds' food than I have cooking for them. And it's probably true.

I am the coolest dad in the world.

I feel like now my kids can run around and say, 'My mom was the Rock's daughter.' I don't have kids yet, but my future children - I just feel like it's the coolest thing ever.

Be always lavish of your caresses, and sparing in your corrections.

At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?

Reading a brief filled with ad hominem attacks is like listening to my kids fight, except that I have to wait until we're in the courtroom to tell the attacking lawyer what I think about it.