Quotes About Children

I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for your children so that they can meet all the challenges.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

They're my instructors, and every parent will understand that.

Over its 40 years, Muppets on 'Sesame Street' have addressed AIDS, divorce, a parent's deployment overseas, and a death in the family. But the show is addressing incarceration in a way it didn't used to: by bringing the show directly to the kids and families it wants to reach.

Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way, all parents are entrepreneurs.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

I'm a parent. I'm a mother.

There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!

I think having four children made me a good mentor. As a parent, you get to know young people as they mature and grow up and to also learn about some of the difficulties they face.

As a parent, you want to protect your children, but the fact of racism in this country, of inequality, that is still a lesson my children are going to have to learn. I can't protect my kids from that.

As a parent, you just want to really make sure your kids understand what you are trying to say as much as their maturity level will allow them to.

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work.

Parenthood helps you be less selfish, because you don't care about anything as much as you do them.

Parenthood has made me more cautious.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Parenting three children at the same time has helped me grow as a filmmaker. It taught me to be more empathetic and understand what people want from me.

Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.

Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than 'Jeopardy!'

The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of.

I think the main parenting or education you do for your children is by way of being, and not by way of having guidelines or some agenda. I think that life itself is constantly bringing learning opportunities.