Quotes About Parenting

My mom was a great woman, but my dad was always the king of the castle, so to speak.

My dad never forced me to do anything. But if I did it, if I decided to go play catch or basketball, he was hard on me. You had to do it the right way if you were going to do it. He never let me win.

My parents wanted to keep me away from girls, so they sent me to a Catholic boy's school, the Loyola Academy in Chicago.

I have always been drawn to child-related causes. I find that people listen to me more when I advocate for children now that I have my own.

Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'

I always knew I was the center of my parents.

Women can only raise men to a certain point in life. Certain things a man has to teach him or he will be taught by the streets. That's just how it is.

The great lesson I got from my parents is how not to treat your children. To break that chain, even if I don't do anything else, at least I've done that.

Living without my children in Manchester has been incredibly challenging for me.

The chances of a child coming through as I did... the world is too hard. On the other hand, I would always encourage children of mine if they wanted to be in school plays and dance and sing. But I wouldn't put them to work.

I'm still not good at changing nappies, but I do do it.

If you want to see chaos, you should come to my house early in the morning when my three kids are running around. That's chaos.

My mom is in charge of my earnings.

I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.

I feel like my dad was really, really peak-level embarrassing, whether he was screaming at me or just cheap and rude.

After my kids go to bed, I check email. It's about having that balance.

I really want to take time and be in the moment with my kid for at least the first year. I know she's not going to remember that, but it's really for the family chemistry.

I don't cherish the idea of having to raise children in this political atmosphere, and so, you know, I definitely want to at some point to get out of congress, come back home, you know, continue to run successful businesses.

My mother is a teacher, and my father is a chief marine engineer.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

I tell my kids all the time that I'm so lucky they chose me to be their mom.