Tyler Ritter Quotes

My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.

I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'

Unless you have kids, you actually have no idea what kids are watching on TV these days.

Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.

No American parent should be forced to compete with popular culture to raise his children.

My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

I've always told my kids to have fun.

All my siblings went to college, and my parents stressed getting school work done first before we could play.

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.

I learned reading and writing from my mother.

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

My dad was trying to prepare me for what he went through as a kid.

My mommy raised me so well.

At home, our focus has always been academics and playing.

As for my role models... you know, I'm an immigrant, so we didn't grow up with too much TV. My parents were like, 'You must read your books.'

My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me 'A Clockwork Orange,' and my mom said, 'I never want to see this movie in my house again.'

I've learned a lot from my parents.

Basically, I've always raised my kids that people learn from their mistakes, and every father wants their kids to be better than them.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

My father very early on had both short and long-term strategies in his approach to raising his children, so my father was disturbed by the extent to which I was interested in both hip-hop and sports.

Mum and Dad had high expectations of us as human beings - it wasn't just about education. It's a fantastic way to go about parenting, and I aspire to that.

My parents were definitely the biggest influence in my life.

Me and my husband think the internet is a really positive thing. We know games that have taught our children problem-solving skills but that doesn't mean we are going to say play 'Call of Duty.'