Quotes About Parenting

Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home.

Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

I don't want to say anything about my kids . . . but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name!

To encourage my little kid to eat I'd sometimes say: "Just pretend it's sand."

My kid asked if he could borrow ten dollars. When I only gave him five dollars he said "Okay since you owe me the other five dollars we'll call it even."

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

When I reprimanded my son for hair like Michael Jackson he said: "I don't see the problem you wear yours like Michael Jordan."

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.

'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.

For me, conscious parenting is staying attuned to your child, being really open and in the moment. It means staying as present as possible in your own breath for the betterment of your whole family.

Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.

The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me.

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

The best gift from a father to his child is Education and Upbringing.

A man's worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Be a father, if not, why bother, son? A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one. If you did it, admit it and stick with it.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.