Parenting Quotes

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.