Quotes About Parenting

Here's the thing: If you don't want your kids to read a book, fine. You can tell them not to read a book, and maybe they will and maybe they won't. But you can't say what other kids can read.

I did not bring up my child to think that she was a star. If I had treated her any differently, it would have messed everything up. She was brought up normally, like other kids, in a normal house, and it was a normal, middle-class life.

The joy I get while listening to my daughter, Poonthendrel, speak is incomparable. I've listened to several other kids speak but have never enjoyed it as much as I have enjoyed listening to my daughter.

My kids still think that, you know, other kids' parents are cooler than I am.

You can't have nine children and not be organized. Otherwise it just looks like Appalachia.

I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.

Parents just want their baby to be happy and healthy, and we're giving every ounce of ourselves to do that.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives.

Let me tell you something. I'm a funny girl, and I gave birth to what? Funny. I can't help it. It just is what it is, and my kids have been around my antics so long, it kind of rubs off a little bit. So when it comes to what you see, you only see what is really manifesting in our lives at the time.

A lot of young people have been raised on our music, or rather had it forced upon them by their parents.

As parents, it is our responsibility to show by example and educate our children on the importance of caring for our planet.

It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries.

It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.

If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation.

I'm just going to be as honest as I can with my children and really try to build their character to be as strong as ours is.

There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents.

I have shot back-to-back shows with outdoor schedules, and so missed many moments of my babies.

My dad had me in little baseball outfits and bats in the crib.

When I had my daughter, I'd been chugging along in my career and had great mentors and success, but it was the first time it hit me that I really loved working and having that professional outlet.

Men and women of character raise strong children who are not easily influenced by the media, corrupt schools, bad friends, and the outside world.

It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.

As a parent, my fantasy is to cook every meal, read every story, do everything, and also work all day. I'm overly hard on myself.

You want to raise good kids, but it doesn't happen in one day. You want to be a great fighter, but it doesn't happen overnight. It takes time.