My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

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.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

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

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

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

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

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

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

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.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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!

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

My next baby will be my new record.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

My son’s full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.

Children always turn to the light.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

My mother insisted that her children read.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

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.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

The soul is healed by being with children.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

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.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

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.‘

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.