Quotes About Parenting

I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

Stop worrying about whether they can handle it. You want the truth? Your kid is hardier than you are... Kids are tough.

It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.

I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.

Most parents have college funds and things. I don't. I call myself the "hood daddy." I got their money in cash, stashed up. I don't have plans for my kids. I just want them to be happy.

What inspires me is my daughter because I want to set a good example for her, as does my wife.

I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food.

I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.

And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.

As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is.

I find ways to make things affordable. If the kids want the looks, they can be able to go afford it.

But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye.... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need.

You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer.

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.