Quotes About Parenting

You know when you have a child and then as you get older, your parents start becoming more like your friends and then telling you things they wouldn't have told you when you were 14 or 15, answering questions about the past or whatever.

A grandparent can be simply affirming. A grandparent has been there, done that child-raising stuff, and has the wisdom of experience. And so in some ways, they're free to love without the anxiety of being the actual parents. They're free to give.

When you've got kids, you don't want to pass on the angst and the anxiety.

I love being a hands on dad I can't imagine it any other way.

I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.

I know throughout my childhood, there were many times I couldn't stand being a 'Jr.' I wouldn't want anybody else to go through that. If we'd had a boy, he wouldn't have been another Freddie Prinze.

I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s.

Seeing my child born is so much more important than anything else I've got going on.

If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.

As kids, we want to ape our parents.

It's important to be able to listen to your children. A lot of times, I'll make a decision about something, but our children have learned to make appeals and express their opinions. And a lot of times, they have better ideas than I do about things.

Here I am getting $50,000 for personal appearances. Everyone wants a piece of me. But my kids think no one could possibly think Dad is cool.

I think, now that I am a mother, I look at other mums like Jo Pavey and just mums that go back to work and work incredibly hard, and I have so much admiration and appreciation for how hard it is.

I always tell the parents, 'You don't have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they are.'

I really think some people have an aptitude for being parents while others don't.

I am an adoptive parent. My wife and I adopted our daughter nine years ago. She was born in China. We have been her parents since she was nine and a half months old, and we don't know very much about her life before we first took her into our arms.

I loved watching Arsenal, my son's an Arsenal fan.

I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that's ok.

I was ashamed. My son is a drug addict. What does this mean about me?

Admiration, gratitude, a sort of hope for better days, were mingled with pride at having such a pretty daughter.

That fellow was partly the cause of his mother's death. He chose to be a commercial traveller; and the trade just suited him, for he was no sooner in the house than he wanted to be out of it; he couldn't keep in one place, and he wouldn't learn anything. All I ask of God is that I may die before he dishonors my name. Those who have no children lose many pleasures, but they escape great sufferings.

Tive agora a noção do que é ser pobre, ao desejar ter fortuna para dar ao meu filho

Quand son fils devint grand, il le mena chasser pour qu'il contractât cette sauvagerie de langage, cette rudesse de manières, cette force de corps, cette virilité dans le regard et dans la voix qui rendaient à ses yeux un homme accompli." In L'enfant maudit Cité par Lucile Peytavin dans Le coût de la virilité

The countess regarded her sons as too ill-trained to admit of the slightest intimacy with their sisters. All communication between the poor children was therefore strictly watched. When the boys came home from school, the count was careful not to keep them in the house. The boys always breakfasted with their mother and sisters, but after that the count took them off to museums, theatres, restaurants, or, during the summer season, into the country.