Quotes About Parenting

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.

A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people are like, 'I don't want to hear about your kids!' I'm like, 'Prepare yourselves. That's all I'm going to talk about.'

Having the ability to walk to the grocery store, ride my bike miles away to a friend's house, and spend most of the day unsupervised gave me confidence in myself. But I don't give my daughter that same freedom, and I never have, because I fear the possible repercussions.

My kid is seven years old and is learning to read and conjugate, but I don't agree with that kind of education because I feel that the concepts are not contextualized... it's interesting to try to make my kid a reflective boy, rather than just a repetitive boy, even if he doesn't agree with me.

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

We should seriously rethink a tax code that makes it less and less possible for one parent to stay home with the kids and replace it with a family-friendly system of tax collection.

I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, because she knew he'd be furious. I probably would've gone to boot camp. Seriously.

I don't let a lot of reporters meet my children.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they're capable of and the world as it should be seen.

The human race could not go on without reproduction, and marriage creates the most secure environment in which to raise children.

If a hamster has too many babies she knows she cannot carry, she not only abandons them, but she eats them. That means she doesn't have to go out and hunt for food for herself.

I never want to hurt no one to the point so they can't go back to their children.

Now I tell my mom, I go, 'Mom, you know when I was a kid and you told me to turn off the television and go outside and play?' I'd be like, 'You literally were hurting my career when you did that. You literally stopped me from doing now, what I do for a living.'

When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

For my kids, I cook everything. We have dinner every night, pretty much, just the four of us: my husband and me and our two kids.

It's easy to get lost in the baby. You have to make sure you give your husband attention.

I was always very determined, as was my husband, that we wouldn't let any of our children act when they were young.

My kids have always been allowed to have dessert. My husband thinks I'm too free and easy about that kind of stuff, but my kids will throw out a half-eaten ice cream cone if they've had enough, which I've never in my life been able to do.

How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.

I was not an ideal parent, and there were things that I did right and things I did wrong.

I'm not the ideal male. But when my daughter was born, I became more aware of the society she would grow in.

As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.

As a parent I know how challenging it can be to identify the right books and how rewarding it can be when you do find the right fit.