Rozonda Thomas Quotes

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

When I'm a mum, I'm not going to be one of those mums who has nannies. Actually, I might have nannies - never say never - but I'm not having someone else raise my kids.

Like some people they're into nannies and the whole social life and they don't spend time with their kids. I'm always with my kids.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

Having children is a huge responsibility, and I just don't want to hand them off to a nanny or my mom to take care of them.

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don't need to go to the gym! I'm chasing after my daughter everywhere she goes.

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

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 think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.

I need the help of my nannies, but I don't want my children being raised in something that resembles a group home.

I have never had a nanny with any of my children.

It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.

I understand how important it is for both parents to be in a child's life.

Bringing up children always has a bigger role for the mother.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.