Quotes About Parenting

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

If you look at 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' the movie's message essentially says it doesn't matter if you're a 'red' or a 'blue': at the end of the day, parents should love their children and want what's best for them.

I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, 'This is how you're supposed to do it.' And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, 'Here's the good stuff in life. How do you get there?'

My kids will never need a bodyguard because they'll have me.

I had a great bond with my father. Even when I was a kid, my bond with my dad made me want to be a father myself one day.

My parents say I bond with kids very well, but I am always fighting with them. I don't know how to handle them.

Now that I have a child of my own, I'm in awe of - and deeply grateful for - the time my parents spent in taking me to bookstores.

Let me tell you this, a daughter is a boon to this mankind.

I love just being home with the kids and, seeing what they do when they're bored and then I just follow.

I've always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along.

Driving around with a receding hairline and two kids in a Prius feels a bit boring for me.

I lend my daughter beauty products, but only as a treat. If she's going to a party, I'll let her borrow a mascara or moisturizer.

When my children look and ask about what I do, they know I'm the boss.

I say to my kids all the time - and this is absolutely true - I always say, 'Who's the boss?' and they go, 'You are.'

The only thing that I am going to miss during my stay in 'Bigg Boss' would be my two children.

I won't feel I'm Roman's boss just because I'm his dad. I've never had that relationship with him at all. It wasn't the way we brought him up. We were friends. If Roman did something wrong, I showed that he hurt me rather than telling him off.

I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, 'He needs someone to bowl to him.'

Parents need to sit down with their boys and girls and tell them how to carry themselves and tell the boys how to respect women and respect yourself and know who you are.

I've actually made a science out of how to brag about my daughter.

I've given her bragging rights. That's something my mum's definitely big on, like any African parent. Like any parent.

You have to be brave when you've got a kid.

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.

I'll take the kids to school after breakfast. I love doing that - love being a dad.