Angelina Jolie Quotes

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!

My kids are blissfully unaware of anything I do. I asked my four-year-old, Harrison, what I did, and he said, 'You're an electrician.' He must have seen me changing a lightbulb.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

I studied math, and I was terrible at it.

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

Educated parents find more time to spend with their children by reducing time dedicated to home-based activities that involve little interaction with children.

That undeniable love for your child... that's something I totally get. And the bumps in the road, too. Like, any parent that thinks they have a perfect relationship with their child is a liar, or they're just not present.

My wife and I are constantly bombarded with questions from our children, from the mundane and repetitive to the surprisingly insightful. It's amazing how many times three children can say 'Daddy' in just one hour, much less one day.

Nobody is going to be more disinterested in your work than your own kid.

I didn't want to be the type of mother where my child came to me, and I can't even help her with her homework.

I probably took on the father role, as children will. I know I did.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

Being older, I can't imagine a parent not wanting to be in their kid's life. I will just never understand it. To me, it's priceless.

Every schoolteacher will tell you that there is no substitute for engaged parents in the education of a child.

What I continue to learn as a parent is to be mindful of the fact that I am responsible for being the parent that my children need me to be and not necessarily the parent I want to be.

I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.

I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.