Quotes About Parenting

Packing lunches and going over menus is a great way to make small changes in the way your kids eat.

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.

Britney and I are on the same page. There are no grudges. We communicate on disciplining the kids, and if they're grounded here, they're grounded there. She's a completely different person - as the kids will tell you!

I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.

Parents are teachers as much as caregivers, and our children learn to navigate life's challenges by watching us. Kids can get a road map for how to handle painful emotions.

If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

Since 'Flip or Flop' aired in 2013, people really weren't asking me, like, 'Hey, what paint color is that?' or, 'Where'd you get that cabinet?' It was more, 'How do you stay healthy? How do you balance work life with the kids? What are you eating during the day?'

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

We always make a hot breakfast for the kids: oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, the whole deal. We like to have that time in the morning together as a family.

When Mary arrived, I felt a mixture of emotions, including panic and overwhelming love. I felt a great sense of responsibility, not just towards my child but also towards her father. There have been many influences on my life, but that thing of finally becoming a family person was the greatest.

Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door.

It's especially important for my little girl to see her papa at work.

I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.

The biggest lesson I've learned from my children is to look in the mirror at myself, not at them. I've realized that everything I've done has had an impact on them. We have to understand that they are like little paparazzi. They take our picture when we don't want them to and then they show it to us in their behavior.

I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

Children need parameters, know what's right or wrong.

When you have kids, like I do, you have to also make sure that nothing, in terms of renovation and doing up things is dangerous to your children. Their safety is of paramount importance.

At work, you're replaceable... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.