Watkin Tudor Jones Quotes

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

I think my kids give mommy more attention than they give me.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

You can go in and out of love and still love somebody, you know? You may not like them so much on the day, but I can tell you that I don't think I've ever been so vulnerable or been so angry in my life - like, those two emotions feel so hurt or so enraged - as when you're dealing with your kids.

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.

If a parent keeps on saying that, 'my kid is not understanding me at all,' he or she needs to look inside and ask, what wrong am I doing that my child is unable to understand me?

In my family, if something were to have happened with one of my kids, I think my wife would be the tougher one.

I was not an ideal parent, and there were things that I did right and things I did wrong.

I was a perfect mother.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.