Quotes About Parenting

Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.

My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

All I want to do is be a good dad, but I'm pretty bad at it.

I can be a really good mother because I'm happy.

I'm just constantly trying to be a good dad.

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.

There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between.

I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

My dad is a good dad.

I'm taking better care of myself by eating healthy, exercising and doing my best to keep my stress level down as well as role modeling good habits for my kids.

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

When I have a daughter I have a lot of good advice for her.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.

I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set.

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.