Quotes About Parenting

I think kids in France, and certainly in my household, don't necessarily stop interrupting when you tell them, but they gradually become more aware of other people, and that means that you can have the expectation of finishing a conversation.

I think that it takes one person in the household to be a baseball fan for people to love baseball. And if you don't love baseball as a parent, your kids are not going to love it because you're not watching it.

Ain't nobody gon' tell me how to raise mine. I'm a fight to keep a traditional household. That's just me.

She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our housekeeper, whom I adored, and after that, it was boarding school.

I admire but don't envy people who have children and also have big, wonderful perfect houses. Maybe Martha Stewart could do it; to me those two things aren't compatible, but I know our children will grow up with a feeling that home is a place of comfort.

I remember my mother doing housework until four in the morning and then a couple of hours later taking me to school.

If parents know how many times others are finding lice on their kids' heads, maybe other parents will not hide their own discoveries in shame.

If I'd have known how much fun fatherhood would be, I would have started way earlier than 45.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

When my son was just a kid, I remember him going for a running race at school and winning and coming to hug me. I realized my heart was absolutely full of joy, there was no space left.

Having a child, that's huge. I get to go home and hug my daughter. That's the greatest thing in the world.

Kids gave Elon a very hard time, and it had a huge impact on his life.

My kids are a huge part of my life.

Once you have a small child who depends on you for every little thing, you're responsible for him. It's a huge responsibility. For me, it makes me into a more responsible person.

Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

I didn't have a great childhood, and neither did Debbie, my wife, so we both try to give the kids not only the material things we never had but also the hugs and the love.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.

Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.

I mean, the human race wouldn't continue if anyone told you how hard it is having kids, would it?