Joe Buck Quotes

Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.

That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.

I really want to be like my mom in some ways, because I already take a lot after her already. I really like the way she treats us and disciplines us, and I think that she's just great because of how she's balanced us and all of that.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

My mum told me, 'At that moment when you know you can't do both, the marriage and the kids, choose the marriage because you're going to be spending your whole lives together, so you have to put a lot of work and attention into the relationship.'

With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.

You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.

It's very important what you say to kids. You have to walk a very fine line between talking about your life and talking about what you've done.

The challenge for me as a parent of two girls is to establish enough structure in the house so that things don't go haywire... but at the same time, as a dominant male figure in their life, let them know they can topple the king.

I don't think there's necessarily anything that's rock solid about any marriage. It's all about that balance, especially when you have kids.