Quotes About Understanding

The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

I am a very easy-going father at home - I am more of a friend than a parent.

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that a person's sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent.

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation.

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

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.

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

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.

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

As a parent, the most responsible thing I can do is get as much information about my children as possible so I can then think through how I can make them as healthy as possible.

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand it now as a parent, some of the things that she must have been going through.

You have to see, kid by kid, what their needs are and what kind of parent you need to be for them.

If a parent wants to talk about slavery or wants to talk about countries where bombs go off, they need to have a way - a setting - to have that conversation. And there are wonderful books out there for those kinds of conversations.

As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!

Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've had to deal with losing a parent - I want to do it as respectfully as possible for those people.

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.

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

If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.

People think the advantage of a parent in the business is that they'll open doors for you. But the true advantage for me is having someone who knows exactly what you're going through.

I've had this conversation with friends who have had challenging relationships with one or another parent. The only thing I can say is what I feel: The other person isn't going to change. That is who they are.