I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

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.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

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

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

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

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

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

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Part of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

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

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Children make your life important.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

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.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.