Mel Giedroyc Quotes

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

I am definitely not the best wife, and no one has nominated me for 'Mother of the Year.'

We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

And I would like to marry and have more children. I would like to try and do it right.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

In marriage, it's always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

It takes compromise to raise a child, especially with a schedule like mine.

You can't have a child just to keep a relationship together, can you?

If anything gets in the way of me being a good mom or wife, I simply say no.

If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.

There's no perfection in family life, and certainly we aren't perfect, but we're probably about as close as we can be.

You can never get two members of the family to agree on anything.

I believe passionately that the notion of having to work at a marriage is baloney. Making sacrifices and being a martyr makes one hell of a bad marriage.

If you think marriage is gonna be easy, don't do it because when there are children involved, you screw up the rest of society.

I have no theories about the divorce rate or things like that, but it does occur to me that dealing with kids and their problems can be real binding glue. It keeps you out of the range of too much ego.

My dad left his psychology hat at the door and put his dad hat on when he came into the house. It's amazing having my dad have that awesome job. My mother was a model back in the day. I've seen the pictures. My mother's beautiful.

I grew up in a family of nine children, and I know there has to be a back and forth and a listening.

I think every relationship has its ups and downs. I think that's a part of whether you're married or whether you're in friendship or in business, right? They all have their ups and downs, and I think it's just a normal part of life.

Some days my husband Derek and I barely have time for a conversation about anything apart from the business of life - who's picking up who and who's cooking dinner.

My wife and I have three boys, and it turns out this is the perfect number to ensure that you are never doing something that everybody wants to do.

I will get married to a guy of my parents' choice.

I'm interested in direct communication about domestic life.

Whether we notice it or not, we spend our days negotiating for something: for our spouse to do more housework, a child to eat just three more bites or go to bed on time, an extended deadline on a project, a salary increase, a better rate on a vacation package.