Quotes About Parenting

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

If youre a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.

I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.

It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.

The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.

Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.

Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!

I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

I'm much more concerned with being a good dad than a good actor, being there for my children, educating them and hopefully helping them avoid some of the mistakes that I've made.

To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.