Quotes About Parenting

I love my children dearly, they are my blood. I want nothing more to have them back in my life.

I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

That's where my heart has been for three decades is to really empower and allow all families the same kind of opportunities I've had for my kids.

I think I am a decent father.

I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children.

I think because we could do it biologically and have our own child we decided to try this.

We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

Mothering is just so different now from the way it was before. Especially with my mom. She was like the anti-helicopter mom. She was like an inflatable-tube, blow-up-flamingo-in-the-pool mom. Her philosophy was, the situation will declare itself.

Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.

As a father, I've tried to encourage my children to have a broader and deeper emotional life than I've had. I want my sons to be able to express their feelings about things.

My default answer to most of the questions my kids ask me is 'no.' I just start with 'no.' I let them fight for it a little bit.

My job doesn't define my kids in any way. When we go to places, it's about them and it's about us as a family. I think they're proud of me, but I'm just Dad.

I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.

I'm definitely the super-cool dad.

My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When you have this many degrees, you can tell me what to do.'

Both my children have degrees from UCLA.

It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children.

I have children, and they demand my full and complete attention. They get that when I'm at home, even during the night, but it is really hard, and I do wonder how a lot of women do it without bawling their eyes out every day.

Rod has always been like my third child and my most demanding boy out of the three.

My father was a difficult and demanding man.

I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.

Having three kids at home is sometimes like dealing with Democrats and Republicans when you're choosing a restaurant.