Quotes About Parenting

Now parents will say, "We're just trying to make ends meet," and they're telling the truth. But if you think too much about the pursuit of material things, you're going to hurt those youngsters you're working so hard to buy material things for.

I think parenting and coaching or teaching are the same thing. And they are the two most important professions in the world.

When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

I felt I would live a long, lonely, useless life and die alone and unmissed (did I mention that I never bothered filling out any grad-school applications?) It's self-indulgent, I know, but this is what happens to the overachieving but essentially useless children of parents who raised their children to do well on tests but failed to equip them with the poison-tipped spurs of true ambition.

Parenting and family life can be a perfect field for mindfulness practice, but it's not for the weak-hearted, the selfish or lazy, or the hopelessly romantic. Parenting is a mirror that forces you to look at yourself. If you can learn from what you observe, you just may have a chance to keep growing yourself.

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

I want six kids. We'll see how it goes, but I want a big family.

Breastfeeding should not be taboo - and bottle feeding should not be judged - it's ALL fun for the whole family.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. ... The most important job I'll ever have is spelled D-A-D.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

My wife is the CEO of the family. I'm the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along.

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.

I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.