Quotes About Parenting

Don't ever take a seven-year-old with you to a campaign dinner - they will embarrass you no end.

The best way to direct kids is to be natural and honest.

When your kids disappoint you, you tell them off; you don't give them some chocolate, do you? You treat players similar to how you treat your kids, really.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.

I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I'm at home more - and less of a disciplinarian.

I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.

It's not a public matter when you discipline your family.

They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

I think my own thinking is harsher than my mom's discipline.

A boy needs a male figure, and the girls do, too. Somebody to discipline them and make them be a man.

Until I read Neill's book, 'Summerhill,' I thought there were only two ways to bring up children, either with authoritarian discipline or with permissiveness. Either way, hopefully, applied with love. Now I know there is a third way: teaching a child self*regulation, not by coercion or by abandoning discipline, but by freedom with responsibility.

Children can be disciplined with love.

I do discuss things with him, but as a father, not a friend.

My main concern is my kids. And I don't want them to see or hear anything on TV that I didn't discuss with them.

To keep my son healthy, I throw secret veggies into his favorite dishes.

Nobody is going to be more disinterested in your work than your own kid.

I wasn't a kid trying to become famous. I wasn't a part of any Disney Channel wheelhouse. I was basically a black kid whose parents put him into the business so he could go to college.

I listen to every type of music there is, and I also have a little girl, so I listen to ultra-fun Disney stars' music as well.

My heart goes out to any parents who are being led to believe their kids have a disorder or are disabled.

When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it's to bring more joy into their lives. So, when you don't feel that all-encompassing joy, it must be that something is wrong with you. I think it's dissatisfaction that the expectation was different than the reality.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

A film that doesn't get distributed is like a child that never gets married.

You'll find that I've watched around 400 games at age-group level, from six to 14 years old, over the last eight years because both my sons play for academy teams - and I have not seen a single dive.