Quotes About Parenting

I have four boys aged 10 and under. Fatherhood is lovely but there is this slightly shocking moment when you realise it is not something you just wear and take off.

I want to feel I have the energy I will need as an older mother having a younger baby. It's really important that when I'm 51, and my daughter is 10, that I feel I can still run around and do things with her, and feel the energy of a slightly younger woman having their kids at school.

My mom always let me watch movies that were probably slightly too mature for my age, but she wanted me to see different stories. We grew up with quite a hard life, so she wasn't afraid to show me that in movies.

I think having a kid is going to make me work harder in a way that's slightly overdue.

I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.

Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.

Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.

My kids don't slow down, but they like to hang just with us, with mum and dad. They play with us and we play, too.

A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

You have to protect your kids, but you also have to slowly allow them to grow up.

When I was young, I was the kid who would call my dad from a slumber party to beg him to come pick me up.

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

A mortal parent may appreciate, in some small way, the feelings of a loving Heavenly Father. When our children come to the age when they must leave our direct care, we feel anxiety for their safety and concern that those who are to help them will not fail them.

I'll never have the seniority of lions of the Senate who've been in office for decades. What I do have is a lifetime of experience as a parent and activist, small business owner, and lieutenant governor of Minnesota.

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

Give your kid some credit for being smart - just because they read about something doesn't mean they will do it.

I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.

If you did something, and it wasn't right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn't get too much by them.

My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'

I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.

We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children to be smarter than we are. We want them to be more fully human than we are.