Quotes About Parenting

The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.

Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.

All parents want their kids to be on a healthy track to success.

I would trade any writerly success if it would mean my children would be happy.

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've also been able to coach all three of them in baseball and basketball, something that has strengthened our bonds and given me indescribable joy. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.

I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.

Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say.

Kids are great in that they keep you on your toes. They're like a puzzle... in a blender, haha. You have to take the pieces out and try to put it together on the fly.

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.

Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger My daughter as we walk together now. All my life I'll feel a ring invisibly Circle this bone with shining When she is grown.

There's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

I've been doing things myself in the sense that I haven't had a night nurse or anything like that, so I've spent every night with baby except for the nights that I've had to travel.

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.