Quotes About Parenting

My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family.

Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing.

I have barely seen my son since he came into the world. Even though I hear his voice on the phone almost every day, it is very tough to not be present while he is growing up.

I hear how Drew Barrymore grew up going to the bars - I was never allowed.

I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

I don't know how it is with other people's relationships, but my wife is always much more tired than me because she works much harder looking after the children, which is an endless battle - a lot of it is battling with them to stop battling with each other.

Helping teach my son right from wrong, what to do and how to be a man, just about life in general, same thing with my daughter, it's just very important to me.

I'm willing to be different than other parents and go against the mainstream.

I just want my children to be happy. I want my children to be healthy.

I am a father, and I know the feel of being a father. Why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also be happy parents?

Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'

Obviously, I want my kids to be happy, and I believe that they can be super successful at whatever they want to do, but don't make the successful part more important than the process of doing it. Especially if it's an artistic endeavor.

I just feel like kids learn by example, and if you want to teach your kid to be kind, you can't be mean at them.

I'm pretty easy going. I can be anyway. I definitely have my moments. You can ask my kids. But I try to be nice.

One of our goals is to encourage other families and parents that their marriage can be strong even if they have kids.

I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.

I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.

My friends who have kids look like they haven't been to bed for a year.

She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write.

My kids would not get in to bed every night without me telling them that I loved them.

I'm the alpha parent most of the time, but bedtime is a completely different animal.

It's not like I'm back for bath-time and bedtime for the children. You're back when they are asleep and you go out before they wake up. Really, that time when they are young goes all too quickly.

I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.