Quotes About Parenting

Enjoy the little fun things - like taking your kids to school - before they're all grown up.

It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!

I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.

I'm a grown man now, I've got a family, I understand responsibility.

I'm a grown man. I have six kids. I'm married now. So I speak my mind.

I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I'm not that grown-up myself.

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.

Parents get worried that kids will hold grudges. But they just don't.

I love feeling strong. You pick up your daughter with ease while everyone else makes a little grunt when they pick up their kids.

I guarantee whenever I get married or have a baby, everyone is going to want to know my kid's name and I'm not going to say it for ages. That's just the way I want to do it. It'll come out but it won't have come from me.

Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he's reading or he's entertaining guests.

As a teenager you bounce off your mum, they give you guidance.

I will let my daughter do whatever her heart wants. I will support her and guide her and give her all the knowledge that I have because I want her to succeed in whatever she loves.

I am a believer that if you bring children into this world, then you have a responsibility to do your best and support and guide them until the day you die.

I would try to guide my children in a different way to have a career. Something besides being an actress, singer or model. I'm definitely going to push my kids in the other direction.

A person takes his own path. My father tried to guide me the best way he thought I should go, and it didn't work. I went the way I wanted to.

I always feel it's not a parent's role to either allow or to deny, but merely to guide.

You can only guide children so far.

I really look up to my parents to guide me. They treat me well, they give me good food to eat.

I think that kids need to be guided; they need to be disciplined, but in a way that's constructive, so that's what I try to do.

I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die?

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

I have to feel OK with taking some time for myself, not feeling guilty that I don't spend my every free second with my son, which is sometimes tough.