Eddie Van Halen Quotes

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

You don't know your child until they get here; you don't know their personality.

I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it is now, and I'm coming at it from another angle - like you just love and care about this person so much, and just want to protect them from everything.

If you have many children, the first one is always different because you can only have one child who is the first. They have different natures and talents for you to love.

As every parent knows, not every moment is going to be super exciting.

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

I'm a really fun aunt, so I hope I'm going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own.

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

When my daughter was born, I was a stay-at-home dad for the first two years.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

I love being a mum. Sophia is so funny and has a great personality.

I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

I nursed Mason for 14 months and Penelope for 16, and I loved it. It was built-in time that the two of us could share alone every day. I didn't have any goals or expectations.

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.

The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

But you get past that and realize you have to let go of what you think you want. There'll be plenty of time for that later. Right now, go and be with that baby. Just play with this beautiful little boy.

I like circle time and school drop-off. And I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

When you have children love is always there in the best form.