Emma McLaughlin Quotes

My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

Now that I'm a father, I've forgiven my parents.

When it comes down to it, I believe that, having made the decision to bring children into the world, I owe it to them to be as present as I can in their daily lives and to try my best to stay alive until they've made it through to adulthood.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

I will never regret being there for my children, watching them, making sure they'll be okay. But I might regret not being there for them.

I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

Different parents have different standards for their children.