Quotes About Parenting

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see how he's growing.

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems.

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you're smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It's like, this is my real life.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

I'm excited for my little girls. When they left the nest, I was excited because they were winging their way into life.

There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything against time with your child.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out how we can reverse the process.

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~