Quotes About Parenting

I'm a pretty good dad.

I've got a three-year-old daughter. To picture her being a dancer, I'd absolutely love that. I'm in absolute awe of what they do. Just seeing them work, they're incredible.

The more we try to control our kids and create who they are and where they're going, the more that will fall apart. That's a dangerous thing. So you need to actually manage the fear and figure out who your kids are. Who do they want to be and how can you help shape that, but not control it.

My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.

My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

When you have kids, it can be hard sometimes because you've got to find creative ways to spend time with each other. So with 'Lights Down Low,' I wanted to just write about all the things that we do to try to keep the love alive in creative ways, because you can't always go out on a date... but you can make a date at home.

I wasn't allowed to date in high school.

It would be weird enough just being in a band trying to date. It makes it harder being a parent. And it makes it really interesting when you're trans.

When I'm with my wife, we go on dates and things like that, take our girls out to do stuff.

My daughter was a beautiful child.

My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

I think cheerleading is kind of dumb. I didn't admit to my daughter that I was a cheerleader until she was past the age when I thought she might want to do it.

If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

My daughter hasn't seen me with anybody in five years. I'm very, very selective when it comes to that because I want to make sure that it's real. I don't want her to see me with just anybody because she means everything to me.

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

I looked at my daughter's face and thought, it's lovely to be beautiful but better to be healthy.

Would I put my daughter in a private all-girl school? No. Would I put her in a private co-ed school? Yes. Would I put her in the school I went to? No way.

It's sad that my daughter will get attention because of her daddy. I'm already watching her run around the house and pick up microphones. It's scary.

My children know I would never call anyone to give my son or daughter a break.

I have a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, so I write when they are at school and pre-school, or when I have a babysitter.

I don't want my daughter to think she has to dress like Beyonce!

I don't know what my daughter will become.