Quotes About Parenting

I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.

My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.

My mom was proud but very hands off. She didn't really know enough about the model industry, and she didn't have the time to stop her life to go chaperone me. I think she trusted me.

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented.

I am very much enjoying the fatherhood phase of my life.

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

My mom is really great with me and for me, because I think she makes an effort to make sure there is some normalcy in my life, and her and my dad don't really treat me any differently.

My sons are my proudest 'accomplishments' in life and I get energised seeing their individual personalities develop as they grow up.

Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.

I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.

I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.

Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it.

My baby is the joy in my life.

You can't live your life through your children.

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Most surprising is probably that I thought I had experienced most of the low points life has to offer... but you reach new lows when you are hungover changing a nappy and throw up into it.

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.