Quotes About Parenting

I am like a friend to my children, but when things get out of hand, the 'mum' in me springs up!

Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it's important.

I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and now my kids are growing up in Los Angeles, so that's culturally very different.

When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.

Most parents feel traditional professional courses will give their children a stable future.

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.

I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

Our children see us a certain way, and we want to be seen by them in a certain way. I certainly want to be a strong, stable, loving, consistent presence in my children's lives. But we are human beings, too.

As a parent, I know I speak for millions when I say that every child deserves to grow up in a stable, loving home.

I'm trying to take care of my kid, and the only way to do that is obviously being financially stable.

That's what pushes me every day to want to be successful on the soccer field - being able to not only take care of my kid on a financial level and be stable but, most importantly, to inspire my child.

You have got to give children respect from the earliest stage. You should be proud of whatever you do. If you're not, you really shouldn't be doing it at all.

It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.

Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.

It's always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.

True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children.

It's something that is very comforting. Just the process of them moving throughout their stages of early childhood. Learning to walk, learning to talk. Reaching out for you for the first hug, telling you they love you.

I grew up in what some would call an immaculately clean home. I hated my mom a little for it. I wasn't allowed to paint my nails, since they'd chip and 'look trashy.' My brother and I didn't run around in clothes that had holes or were stained.

I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

I can't just lie in bed and be self-obsessed if there are two children running about who could easily fall down the stairs.

I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

Gwyneth Paltrow names her kid Apple. I'm not going to let that stand.

Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.