Quotes About Parenting

Being a parent is not an easy job, which is why we try to create cartoons parents know are safe for their kids.

I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same time I've got a really serious side to me, and I think that's the balance you have to have. Get on your kids' level, but at any point in time, let them know who the parent is.

Being a parent can be overwhelming at times, but it's something we're figuring out as we go.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'

I really believe that I've been a better parent from being a working mother.

After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that a person's sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent.

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

It is good to be a young father, a young parent. You have that energy, and you are growing up with them.

I want to be an involved parent in my daughter's life and do the things that other parents do, like go to the PTA meetings.

As a parent, I tell my boys to keep away their smartphones and go outdoors and play. I take them to our farm where my father does a bit of farming, where they get their hands dirty. It is their digital detox.

Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.

Being a parent is beautiful chaos and not at all like how you imagine.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.