Quotes About Parenting

My mom, who was a constant fixture at work with me until I was 18 years old, did an amazing job filtering out all the things a kid didn't need to see or hear on film sets. So, acting was just a fun, breezy, extracurricular activity for me.

At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very high filters and don't take to it. At other times, parents simply don't know what books to select for their children and end up giving books that aren't appropriate.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

At times I tell Kareena and Karisma that they should adopt me. Undeniably, I love to eat and booze, but I also tell them that even if I spend a lot of money, my finances will never lessen. My children are doing well, it is God's blessings.

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

When you're a parent, you spend time with the baby. You look at the baby's face and envision her future and what you have to do as a parent to make sure she's financially good and that she's comfortable inside of the family and that she's positive and learning every day.

It's very important what you say to kids. You have to walk a very fine line between talking about your life and talking about what you've done.

My father took me to buy fireworks, and now I'm doing it for my kids.

I am the first to say I'm firm and fair.

Vir made his first appearance at age four months. The more he gets exposed to the people and the life that I have lead, it's good.

My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.

I keep fit by running after my three boys all day.

I feel that there is a decision people make to either engage in a legitimately ridiculous process to get your kid into school, or choose not to engage in that so much, and end up finding a nice local school that fits.

I made a decision as a five-year-old boy that my kids will know who their father is.

I lie to my children every day. Just little things to get them out the door when the school run is happening. White lies.

If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

I am a family man who has children, who is a good person, who cares about women's rights and my kids' rights and education, and I'm not a leftist elitist. I live a very normal life.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

My wife may be the role model for our daughter in some ways, but I think I represent what she'll put up with. You know, I think one day she'll say, 'OK my dad behaved this way, so if whoever I happen to fall in love with behaves this way it's got to be OK because I love my dad.'

I do care what my daughter thinks and what the future generation of whoever is down the line will think.

Whoever said having children makes a comedian safer and less dark is an idiot. Having a baby has filled my whole life with fear, and totally destroyed all illusion that the world is safe or fair.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.