The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

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

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

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

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

My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

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

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

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

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

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

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

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

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

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.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

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.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

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

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

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

I love being a dad. I just love it.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

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

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

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