Boo Weekley Quotes

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.

A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

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

I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

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

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one who wants so much to be part of our two daughters' lives than I can't even let them finish a story without interrupting.

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

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.

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.

That undeniable love for your child... that's something I totally get. And the bumps in the road, too. Like, any parent that thinks they have a perfect relationship with their child is a liar, or they're just not present.

It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

I find that relationships between kids and parents are very interesting.

My kids still think that, you know, other kids' parents are cooler than I am.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.