Quotes About Parenting

It's no secret that I have, at best, a strained and awkward relationship with my dad. The Wasserman family - my mom, my sister, Lew and Edie - raised me. They are the people I define as my family.

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.

My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

I've got to be a guide to my kids. Nobody else is going to do it.

We don't nod along as children go through adolescent decisions.

A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

I really think one of the most extraordinary things in the world is the amount of noise a child can make.

I give my children a lot of freedom, which I suppose a lot of parents don't do. I do have rules but nothing like no noise, no music.

I've been known to use white noise during fussy times as well as to help a baby sleep.

When you become a parent, you're the responsible one and when there are noises around your house, you'rethe one that has to get out of bed and check it out. Before the children came along, I would have sent my wife to go and check out what the creak was.

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

My mom, well, she's half Greek, half German-Italian; born in England. She's just a nomad. She loves Middle Eastern style, Indian style, so much so that she ended up having Indian babies.

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'

My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.

It's very hypocritical to constantly say, 'We want to keep our kids close,' then send them home with so much homework that family time becomes nonexistent.

The good thing about kids is they want to be mobile; they want to be running around nonstop. They want to play. They want to be outside. So they're inherently more active than we are, because we get much lazier as we get older. Part of being a parent is keeping up with your kid.

We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.

When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.

My baby pukes on me. It's life. It's very much a normal life.

My parents are a big help, and they're always making sure I have a normal life and my life isn't all just about acting and stuff.

I normally sleep very well, but when I do have bad dreams, they always involve my children.

My children aren't normally allowed to watch a lot of things that I'm in.

My kids wake up at 7 o'clock every morning, so I'm normally up around 7.

My wife and I grew up in the Northeast but my daughters are sort of small-town girls, from the Midwest.