Patricia Heaton Quotes

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.

It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

You take responsibility for your children but you're not always the taxi driver and that doesn't make you a bad parent.

Being a mother and wife are big roles.

There was no way I was going to have a baby and hand him over to a nanny.

I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny; I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom; I know what she put into it.

Working moms, stay at home moms, they're both extremely hard jobs.

In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.

My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.

The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.

I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

My deal is that I pay more attention to whatever job I have than the relationships I have. Now, if I had considered my job to be a wife and mother, then I would have been pretty good at it. But I didn't consider it a job. I thought it was like brushing your teeth - it's not fun, it's just something you do to keep your teeth from falling out.

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

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

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.

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.

It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother.

So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.

But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.