Quotes About Parenting

You have to be pretty selfless to have a child, who doesn't give a lot back to you.

I made a different decision to send my children to the local state school.

If you can't send your daughter to school when you know it will help her, you feel a sense of failure, and you feel that failure deeply.

We knew we had the resources to send our kids to whatever school was best for them.

I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible.

When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.

My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.

Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.

We have lived together for more than 18 years. Malaika is like family to us even after separation. We have a son together. We are responsible for him.

I think I'm extremely lucky to have been able to go through a separation with the mother of my child and us still be great friends.

You'll see me at my best is when I'm hopefully serving as a father to someone.

With four kids, it's hard to watch anything other than 'Sesame Street.'

Every parent wants to see their child settle down.

My parents were truly severe.

My daughter does sewing, needlepoint and very good drawings. My son plays the piano.

Right after you have a baby, the focus is on the baby. You don't feel sexual; you don't feel attractive; and you have a bigger job.

I really believe that parents need to know they are shaping the future of their children.

My parents were very funny - they didn't know it. But they were. They were actually sharing an IQ.

Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything.

I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

I'm not a crazy germophobe; I have kids, and that ship has sailed.

Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.

I've watched parents sometimes on the touchlines at youth games, and they are screaming and shouting, which is not the way to go.

I was blessed to grow up with parents who weren't enamored of show business.