Quotes About Parenting

When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.

I never neglected my daughters - quite the opposite - but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.

I'm also a devoted father, and you see that side of me at the same time.

There's a test they can do to determine a baby's gender ahead of time; I think they insert a tiny photo of Leonardo DiCaprio into the uterus, and if the baby punches it, it's a boy.

Don't make your kids look hot and dirty and sexy when they're 5-years old! It's really not the place or the time. You're about 11 years early.

Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father's crying. I've had no time to harden my heart against him.

Luke's dad harrumphed, and paused in the midst of shoveling forkfuls of boiled potatoes into his mouth.

I wouldn't even let your dad talk about . . .

Dad," he began, "do you ever think —" "Nope," Eisenhower said quickly. "I try to do that as little as possible. Gets in the way of muscle development.

We raise our children to leave us. - Caramon Majere

C'était là le point faible de cette vie, le seul définitif: on ne spécule pas sur son enfant.On croit couver un petit aigle et il vous sort de dessous le bureau un serin. Et qu'y faire? Quel recours a-t-on contre ce sort d'injuste?

there is no bogeyman,' Craig said confidently. 'Mummy said.' Ted reconsidered. Surely something must scare him? Ok, if you don't go to sleep, Mick Hucknall will come and get you.' 'What's that?' 'I'll show you.' Ted nipped downstairs, grabbed the CD and ran back up. ...

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Pero los judíos, además, son conocidos por la forma en que estimulan los logros intelectuales en sus hijos.

Embracing joy heals depression. Then we become the ones who teach the meaning of joy to our children, as well as allowing them to teach it to us.

Our children are not extensions of ourselves. We did not create them; God did. We are here to supervise their development, not dictate their reality. They are their own beings.

You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don't you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that's the first rule I will institute.

This is the culture your raising your kids in, don't be suprised when it blows up in your face.

None of us here want to see our children follow in our footsteps, it's too hard a life.

Like any other parent he wanted his children to go to better schools and mix with better companions

Most of the kids had been so mentally screwed up by their parents they needed more than twelve weeks of wilderness. They needed reincarnation. To die and just come back as a grasshopper, as a fucking weed. That'd be preferable to the agony they were in just by being alive.