Quotes About Parenting

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.

Of all the success and everything we've achieved, I think I'll be a great dad.

If you raise a cool adult, that's an achievement.

My parents knew if they kept me active, I'd stay out of trouble.

With kids and all the other activities around the house, I'm finding it harder to give my full attention to basketball.

I'd like to adopt an older child, maybe 5 years old.

I want kids: two adopted and three of my own.

People have asked me about adoption, and yes, I would. I don't feel you have to have your own children.

My two sons adore me. They've made me more responsible.

My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

Being with my kids all day can make for long days.

We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.

You want to give your children better than what you had and make them feel like they have everything. But I think there is also a lot of value in making them work for things and allowing them to see other places.

I'm just feeling that... would I be more nervous having a boy? 100 percent. Because American culture and sports is massive.

I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.

My kids get annoyed if you ask them what their GCSE results are.

I don't have any children. And I've often found other people's a bit annoying.

I've started running since I had kids, and I've become one of those annoying people who likes running.