Rachel Cusk Quotes

I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.

My son is my routine and priority, period!

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

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

I really love having lots of down time with my kids.

If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.

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.

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.

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

I love kids. It's amazing that I have the opportunity to hang out with my stepson all the time.

I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.

If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.

For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that I was doing the packed lunches, that we were there on the school run, that we did take a bus. I want them to remember those things, because those are the things that I remember from my own childhood and that have been incredibly important to me.

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

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.'

It's so important to spend your free time with little people. They grow up before you know it. Childhood is gone in the blink of an eye.

When I'm not working, I'm having fun with my son. We do lots of kids' stuff.

I want to have some fun with my kids growing up.

It's a great thing because I've said to my lad, 'What do you want to do today - football, shopping, playing a game?' and he says, 'I want to bake with you, Dad.' And he loves it, baking with me.

I was quite lucky: although my dad worked a lot, whenever he was free, he would play sports with me and my brother, and I can't wait to do that with my child.

Julius Sharpe and his wife are extremely loving parents, and because I follow them on Instagram, I always see them, you know, building forts in their living room with their daughters, and doing this and that.

When my son was small, he just came with me everywhere, whether it was going to yoga class or auditions or sleeping over at friends' houses. We came as a pair.