Quotes About Parenting

As a father, you want to protect, but I also want to prepare her for when she grows up, so I want to be a great example as a dad.

The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind.

What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.'

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.

Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!

I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

I want to educate my daughter on presenting herself in the media and in the world.

One truth I've learned as a father: Children want presence more than presents. They don't want to read about you; they want you.

Having one of the highest IQs ever measured is as much a curse as it is a blessing. My parents were great, though: they were always seeking the most difficult presents possible for me - Rubik's cubes and things like that.

Yes, my parents brought us up like anybody else. We didn't get any more presents than other people.

Only now that I'm a mum can I fully understand the terrible pressure parents feel buying presents for their kids. My mum had four children plus all of the extended family and she not only had to feed us all but she bought presents for everyone, too.

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.

Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby.

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

If my son wants a boxing career, I won't stop him, but I definitely won't push him. It's bad for a kid to be pressured.

I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids.

Even more so since being a mum, I've got more of a backbone with the decisions I make because you can't pretend to be someone else or to enjoy or dislike something just to fit in with the crowd.

Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. It's pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a 5-month-old baby.

All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.

If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell.