Quotes About Parenting

Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

Lot of things depend on the up bringing of a child.

My kids used to see me crying and depressed all the time, and that can affect kids as well.

I had a couple years of depression. I started drinking too much. I had to up my antidepressants. I cried all day, every day, and I lost weight. But I had to take care of two kids. It wasn't about me anymore.

Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.

I needed to really grow up myself so I could be the woman that my daughter deserves.

We have set up our home to be designed for taking care of children.

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.

After having babies, I went off most desserts and chocolates. I could never resist a Wispa or a Flake. I can't finish a bar now.

Mother and Dad were destined to have a gaggle of children. We would not have been complete if they had stopped at two or four or even six. Nine of us we had to be.

When kids are really little, they destroy everything.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

My parents are like many across Britain. Neither on the breadline, nor loaded, they were determined to give their daughter all that any of us can ask from our parents: love, security, ambition and hope.

Money can be detrimental for kids.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

You want your kids to be developing at the right level, and everyone says, 'They'll be fine, they'll get there.' But you get concerned. You just want to make sure there's nothing else.

I devote my whole life to my family, and that's the least I could do, because there's only one me and 14 of them. I have to give all my energy and all of me to my kids.

I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

As any parent knows, sharing diaper duty sure beats changing them all yourself.

I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.

You really don't need to study how to change a diaper. As a new mom, you learn pretty darn quickly!

I didn't expect babies to need so many diapers. Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often.

I get to see my baby's development. I get to change diapers, I get to be a real father, something that I didn't have growing up.