A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‚Checkout Time is 18 years.‘

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

My three children have brought me great joy.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

I’m not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, ‚All right! Get out of the room.‘

It takes three to make a child.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.

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

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.

If you’ve ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you’ll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.