Quotes About Parenting

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

People always accuse us of being overprotective with Beyonce. But I was the mother saying, 'You gonna go hang out? You gonna go to this party?' She was always just so durn easy, so durn mature.

I do wear my hair up. To be honest with you when you are working with children you spend most of your time with your hair up, unless you want custard in your hair or some kind of baby sick hanging off the back of your shoulder.

I love hanging out with my kids, my family. That's something you never really anticipate or understand it until you have a family.

If I'm home, just hanging around with the kids.

That's what I think our jobs as parents are, to educate as much as possible... I tell them to follow their bliss. The people who follow their bliss in this world tend to be the more happier people.

I was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don't know if I would let him do it.

I have the happiest, most confident babies, and I know it's because they feel that strong love from their parents.

Every parent just wants their child to be happy and to protect them. I should be the happiest I have ever been with my career, family and friends, but I can honestly say I am never happy in myself now. I constantly worry about them.

I think you have to be a father to understand those feelings... that happiness of being a father.

I will feel like a success if I raise my children to be kind and happy people.

The truth is that I love working. I love my kids. But I don't view one as evil and the other as good. I need to work to be a happy person, to be a good parent.

I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.

It's a hard job, you know? I prefer to fight. Fighting is easy, being a father is much harder.

My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid.

It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who better to look out for your best interests than family?

I want my kids to understand that hard work is essential and that I wouldn't have them do anything that I wouldn't do with them.

I envy children who know that they're going to become doctors, know they're going to go into the forces or whatever. I think choice is one of the hardest things, but that's what I try to give my children, to say you can do anything.

As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they can work at 'Frontline' and be parents if they choose to. This goes for the men as well.

What I am working hardest for is for my kid, for a better future for him.

The hardest part about this business is being away from the kids. But what I hope to teach him - and what I hope to teach all kids that are kind of looking at this - is that to achieve anything, it takes a lot of sacrifice.

And a bit of discipline never did 14-year-olds any harm.

I didn't know I was harming myself. I don't think my parents should have allowed me to use a sunbed, but they weren't aware of the dangers either.