Quotes About Parenting

The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.

I took my children to see 'Son of Rambow,' about two boys who make a home movie with a video camera. When you have children, culturally you become involved in their life.

I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do.

The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.

There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.

It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.

We played in an era where you were taught to hate your opponent. But life changes. I raise my kids differently than my mom and dad raised their kids.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.

Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed my life and made me unbelievably happy.

My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.

I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

I spend a lot of my life in back of cars - Oops! I didn't mean that in the way it sounded. Like hence the two kids.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.

For me it's not a question of whether we should intrude in family life, but how and when.

Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets.

Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.

Keep thou an open door between thy child's life and thine own.

our society seems to have become ever more risk-averse, full of helicopter parents who try to shield their children from all risks—which is impossible—rather than purposefully exposing them to reasonable risks.