Quotes About Parenting

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

Every weekend, I would get the drunk driving lecture. Of course, Dad drank and drove all the time. I guess it wasn't a lecture; it was helpful tips from the master.

Now is the time to learn how to argue constructively before you have children.

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won't take away your manhood; it will give it to you.

My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.

I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star.

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

Having a child with Autism can mess with your head: You feel like you can move mountains for them yet you're powerless at the same time.