Quotes About Parenting

I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.

I was always aware of what the language I was using meant in terms of my bond with my parents - how it defined the lines of affection between us. When I spoke English, I felt I wasn't completely their child any more but the child of another language.

The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.

I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that.

I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.

When we got married, we agreed on a boy for me, and a girl for you. Mine's upstairs sleeping. Good luck with yours!

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.

As the family goes, so go the children.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. Thats one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, thats one of the greatest things Ive got going on, being a father.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Men are what their mothers made them.

One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.

My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.