Quotes About Parenting

As cool as I want my kids to be, they're just like any other kid. They don't love eggplant unless it is covered in cheese.

I feel like covering my children's eyes when they watch television. It's better that they spend their time doing something constructive.

We started watching 'Doctor Who' as a family because our first daughter was a cranky baby, and she would get up during the night - and it was her dad's job to stay up because I worked at night.

As a mother, I've seen a lot of animated movies, and, I've got to say, there's so much crap out there for children.

Children crave direction.

One fight, I went away to train and my little girl was in Pampers. I came home and she was potty-trained. She was crawling when I left and walking when I came home. These are things I don't want to miss anymore.

Part of the fun of kids is the craziness, and you've got to embrace that side of it as well.

Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

I think many parents who are not on tax credits have to make difficult decisions about how many kids they can have and how many kids they can afford.

My mom actually would not allow me to watch 'Dawson's Creek!'

My dad thought my head looked like a basketball, so he set one inside my crib.

Being a young parent, you can play cricket, football, and I can play chess with my son. In fact, he plays the piano better than I do.

Whenever I hear a baby cry, I cringe.

Each day the thought crosses my mind that when they get older, my kids are going to look back and think about how they were raised. I know they will have a lot of questions about things that may not make sense because they were raised so unconventionally.

I think it's very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything's going to be all right, even when you're not sure it is.

Every time we rock our babies in the night, we bring order back to a disordered world. Every time we look down at our children and cry, we make the world one shade brighter. That's what children do to us - and for us.

We have to tell our babies to stop crying.

When my kids were very young, I have seen them crying, as they didn't want to go to school.

My dad is amazing: he taught me everything I know about sales. He volunteered to be the Girl Scout cookie mom and gave everybody sales quotas, and basically, every girl went home crying because he was super intense.

You know, we've got to be able to understand that in order to curb their behavior, we've got to be accountable as parents in how we raise our children.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

My mother tells me that I was a very busy, curious child and that I quite often challenged my father when I was little, which she thought was rather good for him!

My father worked in currency exchange, and my mother is a businesswoman.

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.