Quotes About Parenting

A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.

Children were hard to deal with; children who were on the verge of adulthood must be the hardest of all. Maybe she'd been too difficult for Emily, and that was a sad thought. "I

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

In the rush of busy life, we don't get enough of time to enjoy with our children.

I'm very smart with my paper! I stopped buying things for myself a long time ago - now I just buy things for my kids or my wife.

I have little children, 5 1/2 and 1 1/2, and I thought I should document my life, because by the time they're in the mid-20s, they'll be able to say, 'This is what he did.'

I always want to make enough for my kids. So if they want to go to university, I can pay for them to go. Maybe buy their first car, buy their first house for them so they can go out and work and not know the struggle I went through. That is my mission. If I can do that by the time I have retired, then I have accomplished everything I wanted to.

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.

I'm not really allowed to drink a lot of caffeine, because I'm 11.

My three children keep me calm.

I think having a child makes you calm down. You sit still.

My mother was like a CCTV camera. There were times when I could not enjoy what most other children could. I would always have an escort.

There's a big thing in Canada that parents need to talk to their children about drugs and sex. I don't think talking to your kids about war is any less important than that.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

What's nice about having kids close to the age they're playing is that you can actually capture awkwardness.

Between the kids, the jobs and everything, no matter what color you are, cardio is probably not on the top of your list.

I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear valuing of it. I knew that was what my dad really cared about.

For any parent, all they want is for their child to be safe and cared for.

I've become more cause-driven as I've got older. Maybe that's a result of having kids; you become less carefree and more worried about things.

Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.

I was never a warring parent who prejudiced the child against the other parent. We are a family wherein everyone cares for each other.

Working from home while caring for children seems impossible.

You do change when you have the responsibility of caring for children.

My name is Dylan simply because my parents did not know before I was born if I would be a boy or a girl, and Dylan was a name that worked in both cases.