Nicholas Hoult Quotes

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

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

I wouldn't want to be a mother that put blinders on and didn't see what was going on with my child. There can be huge consequences to such a thing.

As parenting goes, knowing the whereabouts of one's children is pretty fundamental.

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?

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

Parents have become so convinced educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

If you bungle raising your children, nothing else matters in life.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

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

As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach.

I probably took on the father role, as children will. I know I did.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

I think when you're on a visiting relationship rather than a living relationship, it's kind of hard to have impact as a parent.

No matter how much you love your spouse, you won't love them in the same way you do your baby. It's a different love, and everything changes. You have to figure out how to parent together.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

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.

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

When I became a father, all that stuff rose up again from the back of my mind. I suddenly realised how uninvolved my father had been in my life.

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.