Quotes About Parenting

Yelling and screaming won't really get what I want from my kids.

It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have

It's a beautiful blessing that I get to help raise a man. And I want to show him as much as possible.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a scientist or an actress. My daughter really wants to be a scientist. I really want her to be a scientist, not an actress!

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

I hope my daughter knows that in our house we can make messes and have fun and we'll laugh through it. Granted I don't want her to trash the house, but we do make a lot of messes.

My mom made me go to a Britney Spears concert when I was young. And I was like, 'No, I don't want to!' she was like, 'You're going to be a performer, you need to see other people.'

I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.

Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.

My wife and I have five children and the reason why we have five children is because we do not want six.

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

Raising children made me determine what I stand for, what I believe in, and who I want to be because, ultimately, I'm who they'll look to as an example.

I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.

It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?

I've got about three minutes to get ready in the morning before dropping my kids at school and going to the office. But even with limited time, I still want to look natural and pretty.

We need our Dads right now, we need strong fathers. I really want fathers to get close to their children.

~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.

If you have kids and stuff what kind of dad do I wanna be for my kids, and what kind of mom do I want them to have

Like any parent, I just want the best for my kids, whatever they decide to do. They will choose what path they want to follow, and we will always be there to encourage them.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.