Parenting Quotes

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.