Quotes About Parenting

I love to try new restaurants and breakfast places I can take my son to.

We all eat breakfast in the morning, we all go to sleep at night, and we all want our kids to have opportunities that we didn't.

My dad put me in boxing because I was this hyperactive kid always breaking stuff.

When you have kids, you don't really watch TV anymore, and when I do, I binge-watch box sets of 'Breaking Bad.'

My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are.

Michael did it all. I am telling you that he is the most brilliant father. Almost before the baby needed something, he knew what it was.

All my kids are brilliant.

If I played badly as a kid, my dad would tell me, and my mum would say, 'You were brilliant today'. It's nice to have both: when I need a bit of confidence, I'll see her, and if I need to hear it straight, I'll see my dad.

You hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother, and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so, actually, they can live without me.

There's no mantra for bringing up a kid.

I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes.

I never thought I'd end up living in Los Angeles while my children grew up in Britain, but here I am, and we are all making the best of it.

When my last relationship broke up, I bought a house one door along from my ex so that our daughter could continue to see as much of both of us as possible. This seems to me eminently sane and civilised.

My son broke his arm. I couldn't do anything, couldn't be there. That's when I knew I was a bad parent. I was doing the same thing my dad had done to me.

Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

If I'm half as good a dad to my two kids as my dad has been to me and my brother and sister, my kids will be lucky.

I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.

My mom was born in the 70s, but grew up in the 90s, seeing all types of things. Because of her PTSD, she sheltered us from all of it as best as she could. There was a lot going on around us that we didn't even know because my mom kept us in a bubble.

I would hate it if my four boys were bullied as I was.

Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.

I don't believe in bullying in any form, but especially not on my children.

I want to have a bunch of kids so I can boss them around.

Children are not a burden.