Kyle Walker Quotes

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

Relationships and the stress of the world going down, it puts a lot of stress on people, you know financially.

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.

As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.

Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.

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.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

I don't know if I could date a single dad. It would depend on the guy.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

It is very important for both the parents to spend quality time with their children, at least till they are eight years old, whatever be our social status, or even if grandparents are available to take care of them, and that is the message we try to drive home in 'Pasanga 2.'

If you're in a family unit... and the boys are having a particularly hard time, the impact on the entire family is troublesome.

I can take stress on myself but I don't like it when stress comes to my husband or children.

I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.