Quotes About Parenting

I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.

My dad was a civil servant, and my mum was a secretary.

I like the idea of a family, but I don't know that I'd like to be a single mum.

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

I think every mother feels that the best place for their child is with their mum, but you want things for yourself, too. So, you're either at work feeling guilty, or you are at home feeling frustrated.

I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.

I love being a mum. Sometimes I just wish nobody knew who I was.

My mum will never let me be anything but grounded.

I'm always being told I've got an old head on young shoulders, which is probably due to the way my mum and dad brought me up.

Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

I drove my mum and dad mad.

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.

As a child, I was always getting into risky situations with the potential to hurt myself, but mum and dad never stopped me doing what I wanted to do, and they assumed that if I fell and hurt myself, I would learn from that and maybe not do it again.

My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven, and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren't affected.

Other players do not rib me for being the coach's son. They rib me more for living at home with my mum and dad.

My mum and dad were always careful with money.

Like with me, I just see my mum and dad as parents - I don't see my dad individually as a man, my mum individually as a woman.

I lost my mother to cancer, so once Masaba was born, my father moved from Old Delhi to live with me in Mumbai.

When I'm in Mumbai, I make sure I drop Vir to school and pick up as well. And I fit all my work within that time duration so that I can be as present a parent I can be.

Whenever I get home the house becomes messy and chaotic. Kinvara, my daughter, said, 'Mummy, do you like it when Daddy is away, because the house is nice and clean?'

My daughter thinks that only her mum is on the television. Every time she sees the screen anywhere she's like mummy! Because we don't let her watch the TV.