Quotes About Parenting

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

By a considerable margin, my family's largest-ever financial expenditure was the adoption of our two sons.

People are like, 'Oh, they must be Catholic' or 'Oh, she must just want all of his money.' I'm like, 'If I wanted all of his money, why am I having so many children? Children are expensive!'

One of the great many things I love about being a father is sharing my beloved childhood experiences with my kids.

I think a lot of guys want a son because of all of the things they do while growing up. A lot of guys want to share those experiences with their own sons.

Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life?

We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

I explained to my kids at an early age: I'm a normal dad with an abnormal job.

We simply keep telling our kids that you have to listen to us, you have to do what we say, but do we take the effort of explaining it to them that why they need to listen to us?

We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

When I was born, mom wasn't doing films at all, so I was never exposed that much to the world of acting.

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.

Kids are an extension of you and it is important to raise them well.

Growing up, it was always a huge battle with my mom to let me color my hair or add extensions.

I am selfless only to an extent, I can't be a martyr, I have a daughter to raise.

I'm doing everything in my power to be a great mother. I wish I could be with her throughout the day, because I'm always working, but I make sure that whether it's the morning or nighttime, I make it extra special.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

I have fabulous children.

I just think everything my kids do is fabulous.

I have friends in this business who put pictures of their kids on Facebook. That's not something I would do.

When I look at my daughter now, I see another facet of myself, I see my own inimitable child.

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.

I do worry that we're failing in a whole bunch of fundamental ways to distinguish for our kids between needs and wants. And we're failing to distinguish between production and consumption.