Quotes About Parenting

I have brought up a fantastic family.

I do think it was fantastic to have a kid young. My friends now are all panicking if they haven't found somebody to have kids with. It was never like that for me because I already had the kid!

My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.

I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.

I don't want to be mushy about it, but having four kids is definitely the best thing that has ever happened to me, and each kid is, to me, more fascinating than any five movies.

Kids are great. They are endlessly fascinating and bizarre. But I also think that if I had left them on their own for long enough, one of them would have been eaten.

When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.

It's not just about telling your kids what food is good for you, its about actually saying to them you're doing this because... or if you eat this before you go to football later it'll help you run even faster.

I love fatherhood.

I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.

Fatherhood does affect your work decisions.

I have two fathers.

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

I think fathers were put on Earth to embarrass their daughters.

As fathers, we all have great lessons to teach our children.

Fathers are the first image of who God is!

Divorce is something I think that children feel particularly hard and what's sad about a lot of divorces, and certainly about my divorce, is that absent fathers who really want to play a part in their children's lives but don't live there, they have a pretty tough time.

It's important to show that fathers do cook for their children. Mine sure did.

Fathers need to be made aware of their responsibilities - and that's up to all of us to communicate, as parents, as politicians and as members of a community.

Here's something that's interesting if you look at basic metrics or numbers in this country - 71% of African-American men: no dad at home. No disciplinarian. Fathers are often the louder voice, the disciplinarian. Many of those kids don't grow up with a dad.

I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.

One of my favorite things to do with my children is to read to them.