Karl Pilkington Quotes

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

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

I'm not sure what it means fully to be a parent.

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

Let's be honest: Parents like me.

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

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

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

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

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've done bits where I've perhaps talked about my kids annoying me and you hope that the audience realise that you do actually love your children. You can still be a good parent and be frustrated by your kids.

Some parents want to be popular, but that's not their job.

In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.

I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

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

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.