Quotes About Parenting

Just because you become a parent doesn't mean you grew up.

No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Now that I'm a parent, I know that my parents were incredibly brave.

Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with my own children. That multigenerational experience around his work is very meaningful.

If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a... lot of cardio just from being a parent.

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes. Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I'm not real crazy about.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

One thing I always want to clear up was the notion that I 'took time off to have a baby.' A lot people leapt to that conclusion because becoming a parent happened to coincide with film roles tapering off.

I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you're gone. And it's hard. It's hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It's hard.

The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.

As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

Own your choices. Don't feel ashamed about what you're doing, trust yourself that you're a good parent, don't let anybody else shame you, and, certainly, don't shame yourself.

I'm pretty proud of the parent that I've become.

The best thing I probably do is - I'll say I'm a pretty darn good parent. I got good kids.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent.