Quotes About Parenting

Always be involved in your children's lives. Life gets hectic but we have to find a way to always stay connected and let our kids know that they are loved.

I have a life. My kids don't run my house.

A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.

Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.

Life starts out as partly destiny and partly free will, but then you have kids, and it's all destiny.

The imprint of the father, remains forever on the life of the child.

The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.

The home marks a child for life.

I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.

As a young boy you gave me whoopings to save my life.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

I feel better about my life every day. My kids get older. My life is very rich and full of wonderful things. I've been very lucky, careerwise.

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

Loving fathers give their children guidance on how to deal with all the hard things in life.

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.

I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.