Charles J. Shields Quotes

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

I think I'm a really hands-on mom.

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

A capable mother keeps her young people employed and thus out of mischief. She demands from them co-operative helpfulness. She maintains Shelter. She distributes praise and blame. She keeps order. She does not pretend to practice "democracy", the children do not elect their teachers nor determine the methods of family government. Any mother who knows her business is in her home an absolute domestic dictator. It is she who decides what the children shall eat and wear, when they shall get up or go to bed, and go to school, and come home, &c. Her reign extends however, only over the young and her sole object is to fit them to take proper care of themselves later and to make their own way in life

Parenting takes a lot of creativity, and I embrace it fully.

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

I think it's probably a universal experience that all parents think they're not hovering, but perhaps we all are.

Nobody can raise your kids like you can yourself.

I'm a very hands-on father. I like being a hands-on father. I am probably more like one of my kids in my family, but the dominating kid.

Like some people they're into nannies and the whole social life and they don't spend time with their kids. I'm always with my kids.

My youngest is 26, and so I hardly remember life not being a father, but my wife and I were hands on-parents.

Kids are an extension of you and it is important to raise them well.

That's how I judge a winner - how somebody manages their family and raises their family.

We don't always know exactly what we're doing as parents. Children don't come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it's important to me that I always question the choices I'm making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.

Parenting is more than a numbers game: it's a question of whether people are equipped for the toughest job they will ever be asked to do.