Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes

Just stick with your kids. There's no set of rules on how to be a parent. No handbook. Just hang around your kids and ask them a lot of questions. You have to stay involved in your children's lives and monitor everything they're doing whether they like it or not. You're not in the job of making them like it. You're there to protect them in a world that can be troubling.

Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that's interesting... I've been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of 'em... I have to be very honest: There's not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don't.

My life is longer because of the journeys I have taken.

There are many things I wish I could redo as a parent.

The parenting books didn't work for me; I got my parenting lessons from everything but the books! And it was about figuring things out. So every time I had a thought, I would put down my conclusions and thoughts.

Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.

I've lived an interesting life.

I wouldn't change anything I went through for the world, because it got me here.

Everything that I've experienced, work or personal is all connected so I'm proud of the whole thing.

There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they were first shared with us.

I feel so grateful for the whole ride that I've been on.

Sometimes it's more about the journey than the destination.

Wrestling has been a journey through life, connecting different parts of my life.

I think the parenting of Tina and myself combined allowed our kids to really find their passion at an early age.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

There's a Drunk Midget in My House Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts. Like most people who have had one baby, I am an expert on everythiing and will tell you, unsolicited, how to raise your kid!

My children are now adults and just kind of guide them while they allow you to have input in their lives without controlling them the way you did when they were toddlers. These are good steps to use for fathers at each step of their children's lives.

As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can't help but whine, 'Are we there yet?'.

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

I tell this to my girls all the time: This journey we're on is a once - in - a - lifetime opportunity.