Quotes About Parenting

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

Being a parent is very important to me.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.

You're not a bad parent if you don't save for your kid's college because instead you had to choose to feed them and clothe them. Those things come first. They can go to school and do this thing called 'work' while they're in school.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

I haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.