Quotes About Parenting

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.

There's just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.

Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?

My mom and dad did something special when they made me.

It's very special having a new little girl.

To me, the special parts of the day - and also the ones that fit with a full-time job - are bedtime and wake-up time. So I try really hard to be there for my kids as many of those nights and mornings as I can.

As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism or who has some special needs issue.

It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emotionally it can be a struggle, but financially it's really rough.

It's very, very, very, very difficult, you know any parent with children with any kind of special needs is very difficult.

My parents are psychologists. My father is a specialist with schizophrenia and my mother works with mostly children.

Is raising boys different from raising girls? Oh my goodness, yes! It's a different species, and I love them for that.

When the children were little, I'd fly into L.A. for a specific work project, but then I'd leave again, and when I was home, I wouldn't even read a script.

There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz parenting.'

My family deals with those risks. The best I can do is talk to them about some of those risks. I'm not incredibly specific with them, especially with my kids.

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

For the first three years of his life, my son insisted on hearing 'Goodnight Moon' before bedtime. Like most babies, he was not a good sleeper by disposition - but reading seemed to help, and this book specifically became part of his whole wind-down ritual.

I'm not here to - as a parent, I believe we are specifically here to help our children mature in the way that they can take on their own lives. I'm not here to live their lives for them. That's not my job.

I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'

One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.

I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day with my daughter.

I spend my free time with my children.

I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids.

One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could do that for only a few minutes at a time. I'd never say that ADD/ADHD is a gift or a blessing. And if someone says it is a gift, I'd love to return it.