Quotes About Parenting

Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuriating at times when they're little, but on the whole, they're such a joy. I don't think I was the most brilliant mother when they were young. I had quite a bit of help because I was working and I enjoyed my work.

The biggest thing I noticed growing up when I was doing BMX racing or playing rugby through to secondary school level, was seeing the parents who were so desperate to see their kids do well that they were almost living their lives through their kids and putting huge pressure on them to the point they weren't enjoying it.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

I was brought up by a father and mother who were radically different.

Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.

On 'Heavy Rain,' the game started with something that happened to me when I lost my son, my six-year-old boy, in a mall. I was so scared. I was curious to see if I could create that impression, that fear, in a game, an interactive experience.

I can bring Rain with me everywhere I go, but when she's in school, I don't know what I'll do. The longest I've been away from her is three days, and I cried my eyes out. The first day of school will be so hard.

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder.

I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.

I do not raise brats!

I had to architect my life where I could raise my children.

I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.

My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.

I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.