Quotes About Responsibility

When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

I want to be an involved parent in my daughter's life and do the things that other parents do, like go to the PTA meetings.

Being a lazy parent and letting your kid watch stuff that's not appropriate for their age is one of the bigger mistakes you can make.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.