Lee Radziwill Quotes

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

My kids seem to be more mature and older than I am now somehow. They've gotten ahead of me somehow. But they're very patient with me.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he's feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

The most important thing with children is to give them your time. Actually, that's all that matters.

I'm fortunate to have a baby girl who's super into everything that I say and do and really cooperative and just fun to be around. I couldn't imagine having a rebellious kid like me.

I wanted to be the dad that was able to feed my daughter, hold my daughter, really be there for my daughter.

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'.

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday; I was there for every major event.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

I'm a really fun aunt, so I hope I'm going to be a fun mom! I like to have fun and be silly and not take myself too seriously with the kids, so I hope that will translate when I actually have my own.

You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family.

Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.